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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL

January 22, 2011Glades County, Hendry County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 22, 2011, 1:18 PM EST for Glades County, Hendry County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 23, 2011, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 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
Jan 22, 2011, 1:18 PM EST (18:18 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 23, 2011, 3:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 23, 2011, 9:01 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

Counties Glades County, FL, Hendry County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 24 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

840 
WWUS72 KMFL 221818
NPWMFL

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
118 PM EST SAT JAN 22 2011

FLZ063-066-231400-
/O.UPG.KMFL.FZ.A.0002.110123T0800Z-110123T1400Z/
/O.NEW.KMFL.FZ.W.0002.110123T0800Z-110123T1400Z/
GLADES-HENDRY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOORE HAVEN...CLEWISTON
118 PM EST SAT JAN 22 2011

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EST SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EST SUNDAY.  

A MUCH COLDER AIR MASS WILL BE USHERING INTO THE AREA TONIGHT BEHIND
THE COLD FRONT THAT MOVED ACROSS THE AREA EARLIER ON SATURDAY.
TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO FALL TO AROUND FREEZING ACROSS
PORTIONS OF GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES TODAY PARTICULARLY ACR0SS
AREAS WEST AND NORTHWEST OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE. THEREFORE...THE
FREEZE WATCH HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A FREEZE WARNING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FREEZE WARNING IN SOUTH FLORIDA MEANS TEMPERATURES OF 32
DEGREES OR LOWER ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY...FOR ANY DURATION
OF TIME ACROSS THE AREAS DESCRIBED ABOVE. THESE CONDITIONS WILL
KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION PARTICULARLY IF NO
PROTECTIVE ACTIONS ARE TAKEN.

&&

$$

PS
1 follow-up statement
942 
WWUS72 KMFL 231401
NPWMFL

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
901 AM EST SUN JAN 23 2011

...FREEZE WARNING IS ALLOWED TO EXPIRED AT 9 AM...

FLZ063-066-231515-
/O.CAN.KMFL.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110123T1400Z/
GLADES-HENDRY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOORE HAVEN...CLEWISTON
901 AM EST SUN JAN 23 2011

...FREEZE WARNING IS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

TEMPERATURES HAVE CLIMBED ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK, THEREFORE THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ALLOWED THE FREEZE WARNING
TO EXPIRE AT 9 AM.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 4:14 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFL34 hr
Jan 22, 5:43 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryMFLBroward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more3 hr
Jan 22, 5:47 AM ESTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryMFL3 hr
Jan 22, 2:25 PM ESTFire Weather WatchMFLCollier14 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.