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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this winter storm watch at Feb 2, 2011, 12:49 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 3, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2011, 12:49 PM CST (18:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2011, 9:07 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 428 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
- 1359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 592 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 2, 9:12 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 9:12 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 2, 5:43 AM CST, 7 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 543 AM CST WED FEB 2 2011 TXZ248>255-031200- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON- 543 AM CST WED FEB 2 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A HARD FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS EXCEPT FOR THE COASTAL PORTIONS OF CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTIES THROUGH NOON TODAY. A WIND CHILL WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THROUGH THIS MORNING. A HARD FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT BEGINNING AT 6 PM CST THIS EVENING THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A HARD FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. A WIND CHILL WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL HARD FREEZE WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THURSDAY...THURSDAY NIGHT...AND FRIDAY NIGHT. SNOW AS WELL AS SLEET AND POSSIBLY ICE ADVISORIES WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED FOR PORTIONS OF DEEP SOUTH TEXAS THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ130-132-135-150-155-170-175-031200- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE PORT OF BROWNSVILLE TO THE ARROYO COLORADO- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE ARROYO COLORADO TO 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TX- LAGUNA MADRE FROM 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TO BAFFIN BAY TX- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 543 AM CST WED FEB 2 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE LAGUNA MADRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WINDS IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LAGUNA MADRE THROUGH 6 PM THIS EVENING. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO WATERS EAST OF PADRE ISLAND THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE OFFSHORE GULF OF MEXICO COASTAL WATERS EAST OF PADRE ISLAND THROUGH 3 PM THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE OFFSHORE GULF OF MEXICO COASTAL WATERS THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. TXZ256-257-031200- COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 543 AM CST WED FEB 2 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH NOON TODAY. A WIND CHILL WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS MORNING. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. A WIND CHILL WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. A WIND CHILL WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL FREEZE WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THURSDAY NIGHT...AND FRIDAY NIGHT. SNOW AS WELL AS SLEET AND POSSIBLY ICE ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 7:54 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | 52 hr | |
| Feb 2, 7:54 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 52 hr |
| Feb 2, 8:03 AM CST | Wind Chill Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 51 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:56 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 50 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Texas, 2011Every winter storm watch in 2011
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.