Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2017
Freeze Warning 6, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this freeze warning at Dec 7, 2017, 5:48 AM MST for El Paso County, Hudspeth County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 7, 2017, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 18 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
- Dec 7, 2017, 5:48 AM MST (12:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 7, 2017, 5:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2017, 11:00 AM MST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
Counties El Paso County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:52 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 343 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
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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.