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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

January 16, 200711 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this freeze warning at Jan 16, 2007, 5:22 AM CST for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 16, 2007, 2:15 PM CST. It was in force for 20 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 16, 2007, 5:22 AM CST (11:22 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2007, 2:15 PM CST
Expired
Jan 17, 2007, 10:00 AM CST
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Bee County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:23 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-01-16Temperature 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-01-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
273 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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Jan 16, 5:00 AM CST, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 16, 5:00 AM CST, 22 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 15, 6:02 AM CST, 23 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
602 AM CST MON JAN 15 2007

TXZ229>234-239>247-161215-
LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL-
JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN-
602 AM CST MON JAN 15 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LA SALLE...MCMULLEN...BEE...LIVE
OAK...GOLIAD AND VICTORIA COUNTIES. A LIGHT FREEZE IS POSSIBLE
OVER LOCATIONS FARTHER SOUTH AND AWAY FROM THE COAST. ALSO...THERE
IS A CHANCE FOR WINTRY PRECIPITATION THIS EVENING AND INTO
TUESDAY...MAINLY OVER THE AFOREMENTIONED COUNTIES IN THE FREEZE
WARNING. LIGHT FREEZING RAIN...POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET IS THE
MAIN WINTRY TYPE OF PRECIPITATION EXPECTED. IT IS UNCERTAIN HOW
EXTENSIVE THE WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL BE...BUT IF SIGNIFICANT
ACCUMULATIONS BECOME EXPECTED...THAN A WINTER WEATHER ADIVOSORY
WILL BE ISSUED. NEVERTHELESS...ROADS WILL BE SLICK ESPECIALLY OVER
BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WHERE DRIVING COULD BECOME HAZARDOUS. WINTRY
PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BE MORE ISOLATED FARTHER SOUTH...ALTHOUGH
ANY PRECIPITATION WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO FREEZE OVER EXPOSED
BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES LATER TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

STEADY PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY...BECOMING MORE SPOTTY
TUESDAY NIGHT. A CHANCE OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK. SOME
AREAS MAY SEE THE RAIN MIX WITH SLEET EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. AREAS
FROM BEEVILLE TO VICTORIA MAY SEE TEMPERATURES COOL ENOUGH FOR RAIN
TO FREEZE ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL
HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-161215-
BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS-
BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR-
COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-
WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM-
WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM-
602 AM CST MON JAN 15 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE
TEXAS COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

GALE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON TUESDAY FOR THE WATERS FROM
20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS ARE POSTED
FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS AND THE BAYS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

GALE WARNINGS FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS WILL END AROUND NOON
TUESDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH
WEDNESDAY OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO AND ALSO FOR FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

GW/JV

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.