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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 4, 20144 counties in Florida; 11 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this freeze watch at Jan 4, 2014, 2:11 PM CST for 4 counties in Florida; 11 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 6, 2014, 2:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 4, 2014, 2:11 PM CST (20:11 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 6, 2014, 2:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 5, 2014, 4:33 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 1762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 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 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 Jan 4, 9:16 AM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 9:16 AM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Freeze Watches in Georgia, 2014 Freeze Watches in Alabama, 2014 Freeze Watches in Florida, 2014 Every freeze watch in 2014

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.