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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 10, 20169 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 10, 2016, 1:54 PM EST for 9 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 11, 2016, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 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 10, 2016, 1:54 PM EST (18:54 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 11, 2016, 4:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 11, 2016, 8:53 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 12:00Z on 2016-01-10Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2016-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -220 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 10:54 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryJAXDuval, Nassau3 hr
Jan 10, 2:18 AM ESTFreeze WatchJAXAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Clinch, Coffee, Echols and 3 more12 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2016Every freeze warning in 2016

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.