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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

November 15, 200811 counties in Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-11-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-11-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
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

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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 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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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

Nearby

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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.