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Freeze Watch 5, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this freeze watch at Dec 21, 2012, 2:31 PM EST for Glades County, Hendry County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 23, 2012, 2:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 21, 2012, 2:31 PM EST (19:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 23, 2012, 2:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2012, 1:53 PM EST
- In force
- 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 19:32 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Dec 21, 12:36 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 21, 12:36 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 4:30 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | MFL | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 28 hr |
| Dec 21, 5:26 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | MFL | Collier | 14 hr |
| Dec 21, 5:52 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 11 hr |
| Dec 21, 2:31 PM EST | Freeze Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry | 17 hr |
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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.