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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this freeze warning at Jan 31, 2008, 1:57 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 1, 2008, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 5 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 31, 2008, 1:57 PM CST (19:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 1, 2008, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2008, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 354 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
- 1477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Jan 31, 1:47 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 1:47 PM CST, 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 530 AM CST THU JAN 31 2008 TXZ248>257-011200- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 530 AM CST THU JAN 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AREAS OF FOG WILL PERSIST AROUND DEEP SOUTH TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION AROUND MIDMORNING TODAY WHICH WILL USHER IN COOLER AND MUCH DRIER AIR TO THE AREA DISSIPATING THE MORNING FOG. THERE IS A MODERATE TO STRONG RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE BEACHES OF SOUTH PADRE ISLAND AND BOCA CHICA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE COMBINATION OF CLEAR SKIES...LOW HUMIDITIES AND LIGHT SURFACE WINDS WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES FOR PORTIONS OF ZAPATA...BROOKS...JIM HOGG AND KENEDY COUNTIES EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL BE NEEDED ALONG THE LOWER TEXAS COAST THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AS STRONG WINDS AND HIGH SEAS WILL PERSIST IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL THEN APPROACH THE SOUTH CENTRAL PLAINS STATES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THIS WILL RESULT IN MODERATE TO STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AND ELEVATED SEAS. THE COLD FRONT WILL THEN CLEAR THROUGH DEEP SOUTH TEXAS ON TUESDAY WITH MODERATE TO STRONG NORTHERLY SURFACE WINDS EXPECTED FROM LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED FROM SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A MODERATE TO HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS EXPECTED THROUGH MUCH OF THIS PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. SPEECE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 31, 12:16 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 3:58 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 15 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.