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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 2, 201216 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this fire weather watch at Jan 2, 2012, 6:16 AM CST for 16 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 3, 2012, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 2, 2012, 6:16 AM CST (12:16 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 3, 2012, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 3, 2012, 4:05 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

All 47 counties

Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:22 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 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Jan 2, 4:48 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 4:48 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 3:24 AM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
424 AM EST MON JAN 2 2012

ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134-
GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-030930-
COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-
HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN-INLAND GULF-
INLAND FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-
INLAND WAKULLA-INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE-SOUTH WALTON-
COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-COASTAL JEFFERSON-
COASTAL WAKULLA-COASTAL TAYLOR-COASTAL DIXIE-QUITMAN-CLAY-
RANDOLPH-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL-IRWIN-
EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK-BERRIEN-SEMINOLE-
DECATUR-GRADY-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER-
APALACHEE BAY OR COASTAL WATERS FROM KEATON BEACH TO OCHLOCKONEE
RIVER FL OUT TO 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM  OCHLOCKONEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL OUT TO
20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM  SUWANNEE RIVER TO KEATON BEACH OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-
WATERS FROM  SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-
424 AM EST MON JAN 2 2012 /324 AM CST MON JAN 2 2012/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND
AND PANHANDLE...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS BOATING
CONDITIONS...AS WIND GUSTS APPROACH GALE FORCE TONIGHT. STRONG
WIND GUSTS WILL OCCUR OVER LAND AS WELL...AND A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN
ISSUED FOR FREQUENT GUSTS OF 25 TO 35 MPH TODAY AND TONIGHT. A
WIDESPREAD FREEZE IS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT...WITH LOWS IN THE MID
TO UPPER 20S. WHEN COMBINED WITH THE WIND...THE APPARENT
TEMPERATURE WILL FEEL MORE LIKE THE UPPER TEENS BY DAYBREAK TUESDAY.
WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS MAY ENHANCE THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRES
TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...
WIND CHILLS WILL CLIMB OUT OF THE TEENS AND INTO THE 30S BY
AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES SLOWLY WARM AND THE WINDS GRADUALLY
DIMINISH. A WIDESPREAD HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED TUESDAY
NIGHT...WITH LOWS REACHING THE UPPER TEENS IN THE NORMALLY COLDEST
INLAND LOCATIONS...AWAY FROM THE CITIES. THE NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN
WILL COME THIS WEEKEND...BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS APPEAR
UNLIKELY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV...THEN CLICK ON YOUR AREA
OF INTEREST ON THE NATIONAL MAP.

FOURNIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 2, 2:40 AM CST	Freeze Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	29 hr
Jan 2, 2:40 AM CST	Wind Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	24 hr
Jan 2, 2:57 AM CST	Gale Watch	TAE		6 hr
Jan 2, 6:16 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	11 hr
Jan 2, 8:35 AM CST	Gale Watch	TAE		6 hr
Jan 2, 8:35 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		9 hr
Jan 2, 1:53 PM CST	Hard Freeze Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	20 hr
Jan 2, 2:12 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	28 hr
Jan 2, 2:33 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	18 hr
Jan 2, 2:40 PM CST	Gale Warning	TAE		16 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.