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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

January 3, 2014Levy County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 3, 2014, 4:38 AM EST for Levy County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 3, 2014, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 3, 2014, 4:38 AM EST (09:38 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 3, 2014, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 4, 2014, 4:02 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

County Levy County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 2014-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 2014-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -273 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.