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Freeze Watch 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this freeze watch at Dec 20, 2012, 2:50 AM CST for 16 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Dec 22, 2012, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2012, 2:50 AM CST (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 22, 2012, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2012, 2:56 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 08:49 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Dec 19, 7:26 PM CST, 7 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 7:26 PM CST, 7 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 19, 6:09 PM CST, 8 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 709 PM EST WED DEC 19 2012 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-201200- 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- 709 PM EST WED DEC 19 2012 /609 PM CST WED DEC 19 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...TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION ON THURSDAY. A LINE OF STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT DURING THE DAY ON THURSDAY. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. A MUCH DRIER AND COLDER AIRMASS WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH LIGHT FREEZES POSSIBLE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MORNINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT...BUT SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY. 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. DVD/CAMP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 3:31 AM CST | Gale Warning | TAE | 26 hr | |
| Dec 20, 3:39 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Gulf, Walton | 38 hr |
| Dec 20, 8:20 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla | 100 min |
| Dec 20, 8:30 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 4 hr | |
| Dec 20, 10:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 40 min |
| Dec 20, 10:51 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Dec 20, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 64 min |
| Dec 20, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 45 min |
| Dec 20, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 50 min |
| Dec 20, 12:41 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Dec 20, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 29 min |
| Dec 20, 2:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Dec 20, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison | 47 min |
| Dec 20, 4:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Taylor | 23 min |
| Dec 20, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 28 min |
| Dec 20, 5:48 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 42 min | |
| Dec 20, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 29 min |
| Dec 20, 10:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 32 min |
| Dec 20, 11:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 55 min |
| Dec 20, 11:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry, Houston | 19 min |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in Georgia, 2012Freeze Watches in Florida, 2012Freeze Watches in Alabama, 2012Every freeze watch in 2012
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.