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Freeze Warning 6, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this freeze warning at Jan 24, 2014, 2:42 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 24, 2014, 10:00 PM CST. It was in force for 11 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
- Jan 24, 2014, 2:42 PM CST (20:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 24, 2014, 10:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2014, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 754 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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Jan 24, 2:30 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 2:30 PM CST, 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2:12 AM CST | Freeze Watch | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Willacy, Zapata | 13 hr |
| Jan 24, 2:12 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:09 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 12 hr | |
| Jan 24, 7:46 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 7:46 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:39 AM CST | Gale Warning | BRO | 5 hr | |
| Jan 24, 9:39 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 14 hr | |
| Jan 24, 12:38 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:44 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 2 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.