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Freeze Warning 10, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 12, 20116 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this freeze warning at Feb 12, 2011, 2:24 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 13, 2011, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 12, 2011, 2:24 PM EST (19:24 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 13, 2011, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 13, 2011, 8:00 AM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-02-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-02-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -188 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Feb 12, 9:07 AM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 9:07 AM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 12, 3:10 PM ESTFire Weather WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more24 hr
Feb 12, 3:10 PM ESTRed Flag WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more28 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Florida, 2011Every freeze warning in 2011

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.