Alert archive / Florida / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 4, 2012, 3:00 PM EST for Glades County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 5, 2012, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 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 4, 2012, 3:00 PM EST (20:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 5, 2012, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2012, 9:06 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Glades County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 3028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
308 WWUS72 KMFL 042000 NPWMFL URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 300 PM EST WED JAN 4 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FOR GLADES COUNTY TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING... ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR HENDRY COUNTY AND INTERIOR PORTIONS OF COLLIER AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING... FLZ063-050400- /O.UPG.KMFL.FZ.A.0002.120105T0600Z-120105T1300Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.FZ.W.0002.120105T0600Z-120105T1400Z/ GLADES- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MOORE HAVEN 300 PM EST WED JAN 4 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST THURSDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR 30 DEGREES TO THE LOWER THIRTIES TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS TEMPERATURES OF 32 DEGREES OR LOWER ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY...FOR ANY DURATION OF TIME. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ FLZ067-070-050400- /O.EXB.KMFL.FR.Y.0001.120105T0600Z-120105T1400Z/ INLAND PALM BEACH-INLAND COLLIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAHOKEE...SOUTH BAY...BELLE GLADE... WELLINGTON...IMMOKALEE 300 PM EST WED JAN 4 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST THURSDAY. * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE MID TO UPPER THIRTIES TONIGHT WITH NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED AREAS. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION AND PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ FLZ066-050400- /O.EXT.KMFL.FR.Y.0001.120105T0600Z-120105T1400Z/ HENDRY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...CLEWISTON 300 PM EST WED JAN 4 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST THURSDAY... * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE MID TO UPPER THIRTIES TONIGHT WITH NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED AREAS. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION AND PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
1 follow-up statement
681 WWUS72 KMFL 051406 NPWMFL URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 906 AM EST THU JAN 5 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... FLZ063-051515- /O.CAN.KMFL.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120105T1400Z/ GLADES- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MOORE HAVEN 906 AM EST THU JAN 5 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WARNING. REGIONAL OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT TEMPERATURES ACROSS GLADES COUNTY HAVE RISEN ABOVE FREEZING AND WILL CONTINUE TO STEADILY CLIMB. THEREFORE THE FREEZE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ FLZ066-067-070-051515- /O.CAN.KMFL.FR.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-120105T1400Z/ HENDRY-INLAND PALM BEACH-INLAND COLLIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEWISTON...PAHOKEE...SOUTH BAY... BELLE GLADE...WELLINGTON...IMMOKALEE 906 AM EST THU JAN 5 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. REGIONAL OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA CONTINUE TO STEADILY CLIMB. ALTHOUGH FROST MAY LINGER IN ISOLATED AREAS...TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO STEADILY CLIMB OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THEREFORE THE FREEZE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 9:39 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 11 hr |
| Jan 3, 10:24 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MFL | 24 hr | |
| Jan 4, 4:12 AM EST | Frost Advisory | MFL | Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach | 29 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:12 AM EST | Freeze Watch | MFL | Glades | 11 hr |
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.