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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 14, 2014, 1:42 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 15, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Apr 14, 2014, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2014, 9:07 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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 (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 331 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
- 1899 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Apr 14, 1:30 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 1:30 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 3:12 AM CDT, 10 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 312 AM CDT MON APR 14 2014 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-150815- 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- 312 AM CDT MON APR 14 2014 /212 AM MDT MON APR 14 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 70 MPH ARE EXPECTED. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH MIDDAY TODAY FOR MOST OF THE PERMIAN BASIN...SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO PLAINS...TRANS PECOS AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS. NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING WITH LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES...ESPECIALLY DOWNWIND OF OPEN FIELDS OR CONSTRUCTION SITES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE AREA EXCEPT THE LOWER TRANS PECOS AND PRESIDIO VALLEY FOR TUESDAY MORNING. LATE SEASON SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES MAY DAMAGE OR KILL TENDER VEGETATION IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. .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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 8:40 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 12 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:39 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 38 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2014Freeze Warnings in New Mexico, 2014Every freeze warning in 2014
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.