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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

November 15, 200619 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this freeze warning at Nov 15, 2006, 3:21 PM CST for 19 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Nov 15, 2006, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 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: Nov 15, 2006, 3:21 PM CST (21:21 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 15, 2006, 9:00 PM CST
Expired: Nov 16, 2006, 9:00 AM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

All 21 counties

Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 321 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: 4411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Nov 15, 2:24 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 2:24 PM CST, 57 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 3:54 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 12 more	11 hr
Nov 15, 4:08 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 12 more	14 hr
Nov 15, 3:21 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	MAF		12 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2006 Freeze Warnings in New Mexico, 2006 Every freeze warning in 2006

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.