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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

December 8, 20209 counties in Florida

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2020-12-08Temperature 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2020-12-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
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

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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.