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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 7, 201823 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this freeze warning at Mar 7, 2018, 3:48 AM CST for 23 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Mar 8, 2018, 2:00 AM CST. 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 7, 2018, 3:48 AM CST (09:48 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 8, 2018, 2:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 8, 2018, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL

All 23 counties

Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Mar 6, 10:54 PM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 10:54 PM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 3:48 AM CST	Freeze Watch	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more	24 hr
Mar 7, 1:38 PM CST	Frost Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Elmore, Greene and 10 more	18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Alabama, 2018 Every freeze warning in 2018

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.