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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Brownsville, TX

December 10, 20086 counties in Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this freeze warning at Dec 10, 2008, 11:56 AM CST for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 11, 2008, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 2 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
Dec 10, 2008, 11:56 AM CST (17:56 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 11, 2008, 3:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 11, 2008, 5:10 AM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Brownsville, TX

Counties Brooks County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Zapata County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Dec 9, 12:45 PM CST, 23 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 12:45 PM CST, 23 hours 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 10, 4:04 AM CSTFreeze WatchBROBrooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Zapata8 hr
Dec 10, 9:06 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryBRO18 hr
Dec 10, 11:00 AM CSTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsBRO4 hr
Dec 10, 3:04 PM CSTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsBRO5 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2008Every freeze warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.