Alert archive / Texas / Freeze Warnings in 2021
Freeze Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this freeze warning at Nov 5, 2021, 3:15 AM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Presidio County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 5, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT. 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
- Nov 5, 2021, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 5, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2021, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Jeff Davis County, TX, Presidio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
732 WWUS74 KMAF 050815 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 315 AM CDT Fri Nov 5 2021 TXZ276-051400- /O.NEW.KMAF.FZ.W.0005.211105T0900Z-211105T1400Z/ Marfa Plateau- Including the city of Marfa 315 AM CDT Fri Nov 5 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Marfa Plateau in the Marfa area. * WHEN...Until 9 AM CDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill sensitive vegetation. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. && $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/maf
1 follow-up statement
338 WWUS74 KMAF 051116 NPWMAF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX 616 AM CDT Fri Nov 5 2021 TXZ276-051400- /O.CON.KMAF.FZ.W.0005.000000T0000Z-211105T1400Z/ Marfa Plateau- Including the city of Marfa 616 AM CDT Fri Nov 5 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Marfa Plateau in the Marfa area. * WHEN...Until 9 AM CDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill sensitive vegetation. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps to protect tender plants from the cold. && $$ NMZ029-033-034-TXZ045>047-050>052-059>063-067-068-051530- /O.NEW.KMAF.FG.Y.0006.211105T1116Z-211105T1600Z/ Northern Lea County-Central Lea County-Southern Lea County-Gaines- Dawson-Borden-Andrews-Martin-Howard-Loving-Winkler-Ector-Midland- Glasscock-Ward-Crane- Including the cities of Tatum, Hobbs, Lovington, Eunice, Jal, Seminole, Lamesa, Gail, Andrews, Stanton, Big Spring, Mentone, Kermit, Odessa, Midland, Garden City, Monahans, and Crane 616 AM CDT Fri Nov 5 2021 /516 AM MDT Fri Nov 5 2021/ ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CDT /10 AM MDT/ THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and the Permian Basin. * WHEN...Until 11 AM CDT /10 AM MDT/ this morning. * IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you. && $$ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 6:16 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 7 more | 5 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.