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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 21, 20079 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this freeze warning at Nov 21, 2007, 11:11 AM CST for 9 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 21, 2007, 7:34 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 21, 2007, 11:11 AM CST (17:11 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 21, 2007, 7:34 PM CST
Expired
Nov 22, 2007, 8:00 AM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Cooke County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:11 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-11-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1524 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-11-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 297 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1524 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.3
Supercell composite
12.8

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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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Nov 21, 11:10 AM CST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 21, 11:10 AM CST, 1 minute before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 21, 4:00 AM CST, 7 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
400 AM CST WED NOV 21 2007

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-221100-
ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA-
DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-
HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS-
LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-
PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT-
WISE-YOUNG-
400 AM CST WED NOV 21 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 35
CORRIDOR TODAY.  THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE
LEVELS...BUT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE A HAZARD.

OTHERWISE...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT TODAY.  THESE WINDS COMBINED
WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED GRASS FIRE
DANGER TODAY.

FOR TONIGHT...TEMPERATURES WILL COOL INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ACROSS
MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS.  MANY LOCATIONS ALONG AND TO THE NORTH OF A
COMANCHE...TO WEATHERFORD...TO SHERMAN LINE WILL EXPERIENCE THE
SEASONS FIRST LIGHT FREEZE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW OR SLEET THURSDAY NIGHT IS FORECAST
ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS. SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ABOVE
FREEZING AND THEREFORE NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 21, 1:22 PM CSTWind AdvisoryFWDBell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 35 more6 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2007Every freeze warning in 2007

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.