Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2021
Freeze Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this freeze warning at Jan 15, 2021, 2:29 PM CST for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 16, 2021, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 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
- Jan 15, 2021, 2:29 PM CST (20:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2021, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2021, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
192 WWUS74 KBRO 152029 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Brownsville TX 229 PM CST Fri Jan 15 2021 TXZ250-251-160430- /O.NEW.KBRO.FZ.W.0001.210116T0900Z-210116T1500Z/ Brooks-Inland Kenedy- Including the cities of Falfurrias and Sarita 229 PM CST Fri Jan 15 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CST SATURDAY... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected. * WHERE...Brooks and Inland Kenedy Counties. * WHEN...From 3 AM to 9 AM CST Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing. && $$ Castillo
2 follow-up statements
815 WWUS74 KBRO 160606 AAA NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 1206 AM CST Sat Jan 16 2021 TXZ250-251-161500- /O.CON.KBRO.FZ.W.0001.210116T0900Z-210116T1500Z/ Brooks-Inland Kenedy- Including the cities of Falfurrias and Sarita 1206 AM CST Sat Jan 16 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected. * WHERE...Inland Kenedy and Brooks Counties. * WHEN...Until 9 AM CST this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing. && $$
831 WWUS74 KBRO 161501 NPWBRO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Brownsville TX 901 AM CST Sat Jan 16 2021 TXZ250-251-161615- /O.EXP.KBRO.FZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-210116T1500Z/ Brooks-Inland Kenedy- Including the cities of Falfurrias and Sarita 901 AM CST Sat Jan 16 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING HAS EXPIRED... Temperatures have risen above freezing across the area, and thus the Freeze Warning has been allowed to expire. $$ Adams
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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.