Alert archive / Florida / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this freeze warning at Feb 12, 2012, 2:30 PM EST for Glades County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 13, 2012, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 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, 2012, 2:30 PM EST (19:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2012, 3:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2012, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Glades County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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
- 2386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
257 WWUS72 KMFL 121930 NPWMFL URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 230 PM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 FLZ063-131300- /O.UPG.KMFL.FZ.A.0003.120213T0800Z-120213T1300Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.FZ.W.0003.120213T0800Z-120213T1300Z/ GLADES- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MOORE HAVEN 230 PM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST MONDAY. * TEMPERATURE...LOW TEMPERATURES EARLY MONDAY WILL RANGE BETWEEN 30 AND 32 DEGREES, WITH TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW FREEZING FOR TWO TO THREE HOURS IN SOME LOCALES ACROSS GLADES COUNTY. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
976 WWUS72 KMFL 130205 NPWMFL URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 905 PM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 FLZ063-131300- /O.CON.KMFL.FZ.W.0003.120213T0800Z-120213T1300Z/ GLADES- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MOORE HAVEN 905 PM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST MONDAY... * TEMPERATURE...LOW TEMPERATURES EARLY MONDAY WILL RANGE BETWEEN 30 AND 32 DEGREES...WITH TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW FREEZING FOR TWO TO THREE HOURS IN SOME LOCALES ACROSS GLADES COUNTY. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS TEMPERATURES OF 32 DEGREES OR LOWER ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY...FOR ANY DURATION OF TIME. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ FLZ066-067-070-131300- /O.NEW.KMFL.FR.Y.0002.120213T0800Z-120213T1300Z/ HENDRY-INLAND PALM BEACH-INLAND COLLIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEWISTON...PAHOKEE...SOUTH BAY... BELLE GLADE...IMMOKALEE 905 PM EST SUN FEB 12 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST MONDAY. * TEMPERATURE...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE MID 30S TONIGHT, AND WITH SUFFICIENT MOISTURE, LIGHT WINDS AND A MOSTLY CLEAR SKY, AREAS OF FROST IS EXPECTED TO FORM FROM THE BELLE GLADE REGION ACROSS HENDRY COUNTY AS WELL AS ACROSS INLAND COLLIER COUNTY...MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF ALLIGATOR ALLEY. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST WILL DEVELOP WHICH COULD DAMAGE SENSITIVE PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ GREGORIA
978 WWUS72 KMFL 131248 NPWMFL URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 748 AM EST MON FEB 13 2012 FLZ063-131400- /O.EXP.KMFL.FZ.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120213T1300Z/ GLADES- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MOORE HAVEN 748 AM EST MON FEB 13 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EST THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES ARE NOW ABOVE FREEZING ACROSS GLADES COUNTY AND WILL CONTINUE TO RISE STEADILY THROUGH THE MORNING. $$ FLZ066-067-070-131400- /O.EXP.KMFL.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-120213T1300Z/ HENDRY-INLAND PALM BEACH-INLAND COLLIER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEWISTON...PAHOKEE...SOUTH BAY... BELLE GLADE...IMMOKALEE 748 AM EST MON FEB 13 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EST THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES ARE MAINLY IN THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S AND WILL CONTINUE TO STEADILY RISE THIS MORNING. THE THREAT OF FROST HAS ENDED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 3:46 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | MFL | Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 14 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.