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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this frost advisory at Dec 8, 2020, 6:42 AM EST for 9 counties in Florida. It took effect at Dec 9, 2020, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 8, 2020, 6:42 AM EST (11:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 9, 2020, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2020, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Citrus County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Levy County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:41 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 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
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.