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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 19, 20227 counties in Georgia; 4 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this freeze warning at Oct 19, 2022, 3:20 PM EDT for 7 counties in Georgia; 4 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Oct 20, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
Oct 19, 2022, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 20, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 20, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Terrell County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2022-10-19Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2022-10-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -70 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 18, 6:24 PM EDT, 20 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 6:24 PM EDT, 20 hours 56 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 19, 3:18 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryTAEBay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more30 hr
Oct 19, 11:44 AM EDTRip Current StatementTAEGulf10 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2022Freeze Warnings in Alabama, 2022Every freeze warning in 2022

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.