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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 29, 2022, 3:07 AM EST for 11 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 30, 2022, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 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
- Jan 29, 2022, 3:07 AM EST (08:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 30, 2022, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2022, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Jan 28, 2:26 PM EST, 12 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 2:26 PM EST, 12 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 3:07 AM EST | Hard Freeze Warning | TBW | Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough and 6 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 29, 12:20 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 13 hr |
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.