Alert archive / New Mexico / Freeze Warnings in 2021
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2021, 1:25 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Oct 16, 2021, 3:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 4 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
- Oct 15, 2021, 1:25 PM MDT (19:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2021, 3:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2021, 7:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 3440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
722 WWUS74 KMAF 151925 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 225 PM CDT Fri Oct 15 2021 NMZ029-161300- /O.UPG.KMAF.FZ.A.0002.211016T0900Z-211016T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KMAF.FZ.W.0002.211016T0900Z-211016T1300Z/ Northern Lea County- Including the city of Tatum 125 PM MDT Fri Oct 15 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT TO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected. * WHERE...Northern Lea County. * WHEN...Late tonight through Saturday 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. && $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/maf
1 follow-up statement
338 WWUS74 KMAF 160804 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 304 AM CDT Sat Oct 16 2021 NMZ029-161300- /O.CON.KMAF.FZ.W.0002.211016T0900Z-211016T1300Z/ Northern Lea County- Including the city of Tatum 204 AM MDT Sat Oct 16 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM MDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected. * WHERE...Northern Lea County. * WHEN...Late tonight through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing. && $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/maf
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 1:48 AM MDT | Freeze Watch | MAF | Lea | 12 hr |
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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.