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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 5, 20196 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this freeze warning at Mar 5, 2019, 3:31 PM CST for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2019, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 5 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
Mar 5, 2019, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 6, 2019, 3:00 AM CST
Expired
Mar 6, 2019, 8:00 AM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 294 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.