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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this freeze watch at Nov 18, 2016, 3:45 AM CST for 14 counties in Texas; Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Nov 19, 2016, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 2016, 3:45 AM CST (09:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 19, 2016, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2016, 1:42 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden 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, Scurry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 335 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 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 watch 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 watch went out at Nov 17, 10:43 PM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 17, 10:43 PM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 1:42 PM CST | Freeze Warning | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more | 19 hr |
| Nov 18, 1:42 PM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | MAF | Gaines | 19 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in Texas, 2016Freeze Watches in New Mexico, 2016Every freeze watch in 2016
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.