Alert archive / Georgia / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this freeze warning at Oct 31, 2012, 2:58 AM EDT for 21 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Oct 31, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 14 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
- Oct 31, 2012, 2:58 AM EDT (06:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 31, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
All 21 counties
Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:57 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
215 WWUS72 KFFC 310658 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 258 AM EDT WED OCT 31 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY... GAZ001>009-011>016-019>021-030-031-041-311900- /O.NEW.KFFC.FZ.W.0006.121101T0000Z-121101T1400Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW- CHEROKEE-POLK-PAULDING-HARALSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE 258 AM EDT WED OCT 31 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY. * LOCATIONS...NORTH GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. * TIMING...TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO THREATEN OUTDOOR PLANTS. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. && $$
3 follow-up statements
651 WWUS72 KFFC 311439 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1039 AM EDT WED OCT 31 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY... GAZ001>009-011>016-019>021-030-031-041-312245- /O.CON.KFFC.FZ.W.0006.121101T0000Z-121101T1400Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW- CHEROKEE-POLK-PAULDING-HARALSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE 1039 AM EDT WED OCT 31 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA... * LOCATIONS...PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. * TIMING...TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO THREATEN OUTDOOR PLANTS. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. && $$
061 WWUS72 KFFC 311914 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 314 PM EDT WED OCT 31 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY... GAZ001>009-011>016-019>021-030-031-041-011400- /O.CON.KFFC.FZ.W.0006.121101T0000Z-121101T1400Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW- CHEROKEE-POLK-PAULDING-HARALSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE 314 PM EDT WED OCT 31 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA... * LOCATIONS...PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 30S. * TIMING...TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO THREATEN OUTDOOR PLANTS. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. && $$
633 WWUS72 KFFC 011359 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 959 AM EDT THU NOV 1 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING... GAZ001>009-011>016-019>021-030-031-041-011500- /O.EXP.KFFC.FZ.W.0006.000000T0000Z-121101T1400Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW- CHEROKEE-POLK-PAULDING-HARALSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE 959 AM EDT THU NOV 1 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES HAVE INCREASED TO ABOVE FREEZING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND THUS THE FREEZE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
Nearby
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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.