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Winter Weather Advisory 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 10, 202112 counties in Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 10, 2021, 9:53 AM CST for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 10, 2021, 9:53 AM CST (15:53 UTC)
Expired
Feb 11, 2021, 12:00 PM CST
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Counties Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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 (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 313 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 2021-02-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 378 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2021-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Feb 9, 5:52 PM CST, 16 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 9, 5:52 PM CST, 16 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 3:56 AM CSTFreezing Fog AdvisoryMAFAndrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 7 more8 hr
Feb 10, 12:07 PM CSTFreezing Fog AdvisoryMAFAndrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 7 more4 hr
Feb 10, 2:59 PM CSTFreezing Fog AdvisoryMAFAndrews, Brewster, Culberson, Ector, Gaines, Jeff Davis and 1 more21 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Texas, 2021Every winter weather advisory in 2021

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.