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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 15, 202316 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this freeze warning at Mar 15, 2023, 2:55 PM EDT for 16 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 16, 2023, 3:00 AM EDT. 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 15, 2023, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 16, 2023, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 16, 2023, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Cook County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 2023-03-15Temperature 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 2023-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 2:55 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryTAECalhoun, Dixie, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette and 4 more18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2023Every freeze warning in 2023

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.