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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 19, 2025Holmes County, Walton County, Washington County, Florida; 11 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 19, 2025, 1:49 AM CST for Holmes County, Walton County, Washington County, Florida; 11 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 AM CST. 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 19, 2025, 1:49 AM CST (07:49 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 20, 2025, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Holmes County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Lee County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 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 Jan 19, 12:00 AM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 12:00 AM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 18, 10:54 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 10:52 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	6 hr
Jan 19, 12:25 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 19, 1:49 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	34 hr
Jan 19, 1:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	34 min
Jan 19, 1:27 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	24 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2025 Freeze Warnings in Alabama, 2025 Freeze Warnings in Florida, 2025 Every freeze warning in 2025

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.