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Freeze Watch 4, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

January 13, 2012Sumter County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this freeze watch at Jan 13, 2012, 3:17 AM EST for Sumter County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 14, 2012, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 13, 2012, 3:17 AM EST (08:17 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 14, 2012, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 13, 2012, 1:04 PM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

County Sumter County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Jan 13, 2:49 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 2:49 AM EST, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 13, 1:04 PM ESTFreeze WarningTBWSumter20 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in Florida, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.