Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2021
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this freeze warning at Jan 12, 2021, 2:26 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 13, 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 12, 2021, 2:26 PM CST (20:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 13, 2021, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2021, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
576 WWUS74 KCRP 122026 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 226 PM CST Tue Jan 12 2021 TXZ229>231-240-241-130500- /O.NEW.KCRP.FZ.W.0002.210113T0900Z-210113T1500Z/ La Salle-McMullen-Live Oak-Duval-Jim Wells- Including the cities of Cotulla, Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, Tilden, George West, Three Rivers, Freer, Benavides, San Diego, Alice, and Orange Grove 226 PM CST Tue Jan 12 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 degrees expected. * WHERE...La Salle, McMullen, Live Oak, Duval and Jim Wells Counties. * WHEN...From 3 AM to 9 AM CST Wednesday. * 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. && $$ CB
3 follow-up statements
847 WWUS74 KCRP 130455 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1055 PM CST Tue Jan 12 2021 TXZ229>231-240-241-131400- /O.CON.KCRP.FZ.W.0002.210113T0900Z-210113T1500Z/ La Salle-McMullen-Live Oak-Duval-Jim Wells- Including the cities of Cotulla, Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, Tilden, George West, Three Rivers, Freer, Benavides, San Diego, Alice, and Orange Grove 1055 PM CST Tue Jan 12 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 degrees expected. * WHERE...La Salle, McMullen, Live Oak, Duval and Jim Wells Counties. * WHEN...From 3 AM to 9 AM CST Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing. && $$ LS
466 WWUS74 KCRP 131146 AAA NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 546 AM CST Wed Jan 13 2021 TXZ229>231-240-241-131500- /O.CON.KCRP.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-210113T1500Z/ La Salle-McMullen-Live Oak-Duval-Jim Wells- Including the cities of Cotulla, Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, Tilden, George West, Three Rivers, Freer, Benavides, San Diego, Alice, and Orange Grove 546 AM CST Wed Jan 13 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30. * WHERE...La Salle, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak and McMullen 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. && $$
815 WWUS74 KCRP 131458 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 858 AM CST Wed Jan 13 2021 TXZ229>231-240-241-131600- /O.EXP.KCRP.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-210113T1500Z/ La Salle-McMullen-Live Oak-Duval-Jim Wells- Including the cities of Cotulla, Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, Tilden, George West, Three Rivers, Freer, Benavides, San Diego, Alice, and Orange Grove 858 AM CST Wed Jan 13 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM CST THIS MORNING... Temperatures this morning are slowly rising to above freezing therefore the freeze warning will be allowed to expire. $$
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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.