Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2008
Freeze Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this freeze warning at Nov 15, 2008, 4:21 AM CST for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 15, 2008, 2:44 PM CST. It was in force for 17 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 15, 2008, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 15, 2008, 2:44 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2008, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Borden County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 2921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 Nov 14, 5:31 PM CST, 10 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 5:31 PM CST, 10 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 14, 1:44 PM CST, 14 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 144 PM CST FRI NOV 14 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-151230- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU- BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 144 PM CST FRI NOV 14 2008 /1244 PM MST FRI NOV 14 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NORTHEAST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE GUADALUPE PASS. A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN... THE MARFA PLATEAU AND THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. THESE AREAS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED A HARD FREEZE. A LIGHT FREEZE IS EXPECTED TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN. THIS AREA HAS NOT YET HAD A HARD FREEZE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A WIDESPREAD HARD FREEZE IS LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION AS WELL AS CRACK PIPES. THOSE WITH PETS WILL WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE ADEQUATELY PROTECTED FROM THE COLD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND
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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.