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Freeze Warning 13, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

March 17, 2026Levy County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this freeze warning at Mar 17, 2026, 12:01 PM EDT for Levy County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 18, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 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 17, 2026, 12:01 PM EDT (16:01 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 18, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 18, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

County Levy County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-03-17Temperature 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -93 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
1329 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 8:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBWHighlands35 min
Mar 17, 2:00 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryTBWLevy10 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.