Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Watches in 2012
Freeze Watch 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this freeze watch at Jan 13, 2012, 9:37 AM CST for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 14, 2012, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2012, 9:37 AM CST (15:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2012, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2012, 1:55 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.