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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this freeze warning at Dec 7, 2005, 9:40 PM CST for Jackson County, Matagorda County, Wharton County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 7, 2005, 11:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 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
- Dec 7, 2005, 9:40 PM CST (03:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 7, 2005, 11:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2005, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Jackson County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Dec 7, 8:43 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 8:43 PM CST, 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 8:31 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison, Washington | 8 hr |
| Dec 8, 9:25 AM CST | Wind Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Jackson, Matagorda | 9 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:22 PM CST | Freeze Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Liberty | 17 hr |
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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.