Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2017
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this freeze warning at Dec 7, 2017, 3:51 PM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 7, 2017, 8:00 PM CST. It was in force for 13 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, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 7, 2017, 8:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2017, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Austin County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Houston County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Dec 7, 11:56 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 11:56 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 3:37 AM CST | Gale Watch | HGX | 12 hr |
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.