Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2018
Freeze Warning 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this freeze warning at Jan 17, 2018, 9:15 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 105 min. 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 17, 2018, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2018, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 105 min
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:18 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 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 17, 5:53 AM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 5:53 AM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 6:45 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Brownsville TX 645 AM CST Wed Jan 17 2018 TXZ248>257-172200- Zapata-Jim Hogg-Brooks-Kenedy-Starr-Hidalgo-Inland Willacy-Inland Cameron-Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron- 645 AM CST Wed Jan 17 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of Deep South Texas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect for Willacy and Cameron Counties until 10 am Today. A Hard Freeze Warning remains in effect for Zapata, Jim Hogg, Brooks and Kenedy Counties until 9 AM Today. A Freeze Warning remains in effect for Starr, Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron Counties until 9 AM Today. A Wind Chill Warning remains in effect for Starr, Hidalgo, Inland Willacy and Inland Cameron Counties until noon Today. A Wind Chill Advisory remains in effect for Zapata, Jim Hogg, Brooks, Kenedy, Coastal Willacy and Coastal Cameron Counties until noon Today. There is a high risk of rip currents at the beaches of South Padre Island and at Boca Chica Beach. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday An elevated risk of rip currents is likely at the local beaches through the entire forecast period. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Skywarn spotter activation will not be needed. GMZ130-132-135-150-155-170-175-172200- Laguna Madre from the Port of Brownsville to the Arroyo Colorado-Laguna Madre from the Arroyo Colorado To 5 NM north of Port Mansfield TX-Laguna Madre from 5 nm north of Port Mansfield to Baffin Bay TX-Coastal waters from Port Mansfield to the Rio Grande out 20 nm-Coastal waters from Baffin Bay to Port Mansfield out 20 nm-Waters from Port Mansfield to the Rio Grande extending from 20 to 60 nm-Waters from Baffin Bay to Port Mansfield extending from 20 to 60 nm- 645 AM CST Wed Jan 17 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of The Gulf of Mexico and The Laguna Madre. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A Small Craft Advisory remains in effect for the Lower Texas Gulf Waters until 6 PM Today. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday Small Craft Advisories are likely to be needed for portions or all of the Lower Texas coastal waters Saturday through Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Skywarn spotter activation will not be needed. Speece
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 8:57 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 27 hr | |
| Jan 16, 8:57 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | BRO | 9 hr | |
| Jan 17, 4:25 PM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:56 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 17 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.