Alert archive / Georgia / Freeze Watches in 2016
Freeze Watch 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this freeze watch at Mar 19, 2016, 3:21 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 21, 2016, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2016, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 21, 2016, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2016, 3:42 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Fannin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, White County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.