Alert archive / Georgia / Freeze Warnings in 2017
Freeze Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this freeze warning at Mar 16, 2017, 2:49 PM EDT for 62 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 17, 2017, 3:00 AM EDT. 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
- Mar 16, 2017, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2017, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2017, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
All 62 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Madison County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
699 WWUS72 KFFC 161849 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 249 PM EDT Thu Mar 16 2017 GAZ012-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-081>086-094>098-170300- /O.NEW.KFFC.FZ.W.0004.170317T0700Z-170317T1300Z/ Gordon-Floyd-Bartow-Cherokee-Forsyth-Hall-Banks-Jackson-Madison- Polk-Paulding-Cobb-North Fulton-Gwinnett-Barrow-Clarke-Oconee- Oglethorpe-Wilkes-Haralson-Carroll-Douglas-South Fulton-DeKalb- Rockdale-Walton-Newton-Morgan-Greene-Taliaferro-Heard-Coweta- Fayette-Clayton-Spalding-Henry-Butts-Jasper-Putnam-Hancock-Warren- Troup-Meriwether-Pike-Upson-Lamar-Monroe-Jones-Baldwin-Washington- Glascock-Jefferson-Crawford-Bibb-Twiggs-Wilkinson-Johnson-Emanuel- Peach-Houston-Bleckley-Laurens-Treutlen- Including the cities of Calhoun, Rome, Cartersville, Gainesville, Marietta, Atlanta, Lawrenceville, Athens, Carrollton, Douglasville, East Point, Decatur, Conyers, Covington, Newnan, Peachtree City, Griffin, Milledgeville, Macon, Swainsboro, Warner Robins, and Dublin 249 PM EDT Thu Mar 16 2017 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY... The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a Freeze Warning, which is in effect from 3 AM to 9 AM EDT Friday. * Locations...Portions of north and central Georgia. * Temperatures...Lows between 30 and 32 degrees across most of the warned area...with isolated areas around 29 degrees across east central Georgia. * Winds...Winds less than 10 mph. * Impacts...The freezing temperatures will threaten any sensitive plants or agricultural crops that have budded early due to the unusually warm winter. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Freeze Warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other sensitive vegetation. && $$
2 follow-up statements
006 WWUS72 KFFC 170027 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 827 PM EDT Thu Mar 16 2017 GAZ012-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-081>086-094>098-170830- /O.CON.KFFC.FZ.W.0004.170317T0700Z-170317T1300Z/ Gordon-Floyd-Bartow-Cherokee-Forsyth-Hall-Banks-Jackson-Madison- Polk-Paulding-Cobb-North Fulton-Gwinnett-Barrow-Clarke-Oconee- Oglethorpe-Wilkes-Haralson-Carroll-Douglas-South Fulton-DeKalb- Rockdale-Walton-Newton-Morgan-Greene-Taliaferro-Heard-Coweta- Fayette-Clayton-Spalding-Henry-Butts-Jasper-Putnam-Hancock-Warren- Troup-Meriwether-Pike-Upson-Lamar-Monroe-Jones-Baldwin-Washington- Glascock-Jefferson-Crawford-Bibb-Twiggs-Wilkinson-Johnson-Emanuel- Peach-Houston-Bleckley-Laurens-Treutlen- Including the cities of Calhoun, Rome, Cartersville, Gainesville, Marietta, Atlanta, Lawrenceville, Athens, Carrollton, Douglasville, East Point, Decatur, Conyers, Covington, Newnan, Peachtree City, Griffin, Milledgeville, Macon, Swainsboro, Warner Robins, and Dublin 827 PM EDT Thu Mar 16 2017 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY... * Locations...Portions of north and central Georgia. * Temperatures...Lows between 30 and 32 degrees across most of the warned area...with isolated areas around 29 degrees across east central Georgia. * Winds...Winds less than 10 mph. * Impacts...The freezing temperatures will threaten any sensitive plants or agricultural crops that have budded early due to the unusually warm winter. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Freeze Warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other sensitive vegetation. && $$
649 WWUS72 KFFC 170736 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 336 AM EDT Fri Mar 17 2017 GAZ012-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-081>086-094>098-171300- /O.CON.KFFC.FZ.W.0004.000000T0000Z-170317T1300Z/ Gordon-Floyd-Bartow-Cherokee-Forsyth-Hall-Banks-Jackson-Madison- Polk-Paulding-Cobb-North Fulton-Gwinnett-Barrow-Clarke-Oconee- Oglethorpe-Wilkes-Haralson-Carroll-Douglas-South Fulton-DeKalb- Rockdale-Walton-Newton-Morgan-Greene-Taliaferro-Heard-Coweta- Fayette-Clayton-Spalding-Henry-Butts-Jasper-Putnam-Hancock-Warren- Troup-Meriwether-Pike-Upson-Lamar-Monroe-Jones-Baldwin-Washington- Glascock-Jefferson-Crawford-Bibb-Twiggs-Wilkinson-Johnson-Emanuel- Peach-Houston-Bleckley-Laurens-Treutlen- Including the cities of Calhoun, Rome, Cartersville, Gainesville, Marietta, Atlanta, Lawrenceville, Athens, Carrollton, Douglasville, East Point, Decatur, Conyers, Covington, Newnan, Peachtree City, Griffin, Milledgeville, Macon, Swainsboro, Warner Robins, and Dublin 336 AM EDT Fri Mar 17 2017 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * Locations...Portions of north and central Georgia. * Temperatures...Lows between 30 and 32 degrees across most of the warned area...with isolated areas around 29 degrees across east central Georgia. * Winds...Winds less than 10 mph. * Impacts...The freezing temperatures will threaten any sensitive plants or agricultural crops that have budded early due to the unusually warm winter. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Freeze Warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other sensitive vegetation. && $$
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2017Every freeze warning in 2017
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.