Alert archive / Georgia / Frost Advisories in 2011
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this frost advisory at Mar 1, 2011, 3:58 PM EST for 29 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 2, 2011, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2011, 3:58 PM EST (20:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2011, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2011, 3:51 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
All 29 counties
Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
958 WWUS72 KFFC 012058 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 358 PM EST TUE MAR 1 2011 ...PATCHY FROST EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY... CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE WAS SPREADING ACROSS THE EASTERN U.S. IN THE WAKE OF THE STRONG STORM SYSTEM THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA MONDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE MID 30S IN RURAL AREAS...MOUNTAIN VALLEYS...AND SHELTERED...PROTECTED AREAS TONIGHT. GIVEN THAT TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN UNSEASONABLY WARM FOR THE LAST TWO TO THREE WEEKS AND MANY AREAS HAVE NOT EVEN SEEN A FREEZE OR FROST SINCE MID-FEBRUARY...MANY PLANTS...TREES...AND SHRUBS HAVE STARTED TO BUD PREMATURELY AND WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO FROST. FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT. GAZ001>009-011>016-019-020-030-031-041>043-052>054-056-066>068- 021400- /O.NEW.KFFC.FR.Y.0001.110302T0900Z-110302T1400Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW-POLK- PAULDING-HARALSON-CARROLL-DOUGLAS-HEARD-COWETA-FAYETTE-SPALDING- TROUP-MERIWETHER-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE...CARROLLTON...DOUGLASVILLE...NEWNAN... PEACHTREE CITY...GRIFFIN 358 PM EST TUE MAR 1 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM EST WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM EST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING: FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM EST WEDNESDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURE: FROM 34 TO 36 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT. * IMPACTS: PREMATURELY BUDDING PLANTS...SHRUBS...AND TREES WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THESE COLD TEMPERATURES AND MAY SUFFER FROST DAMAGE AND COULD BE KILLED IF LEFT UNPROTECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. INDOOR PLANTS SHOULD BE BROUGHT INDOORS TONIGHT. && $$ 19
1 follow-up statement
819 WWUS72 KFFC 020851 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 351 AM EST WED MAR 2 2011 GAZ001>009-011>016-019-020-030-031-041>043-052>054-056-066>068- 021000- /O.CAN.KFFC.FR.Y.0001.110302T0900Z-110302T1400Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW-POLK- PAULDING-HARALSON-CARROLL-DOUGLAS-HEARD-COWETA-FAYETTE-SPALDING- TROUP-MERIWETHER-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE...CARROLLTON...DOUGLASVILLE...NEWNAN... PEACHTREE CITY...GRIFFIN 351 AM EST WED MAR 2 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. GENERALLY ONLY PATCHY FROST IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING. $$
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.