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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 6, 2007, 3:37 PM CDT for 19 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 7, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 6, 2007, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 7, 2007, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 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 20:35 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 366 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
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 6, 3:20 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 3:20 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:44 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Howard, Martin and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:31 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | 26 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2007Freeze Warnings in New Mexico, 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.