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Freeze Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 23, 20227 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this freeze warning at Dec 23, 2022, 1:34 PM CST for 7 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 24, 2022, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 16 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
Dec 23, 2022, 1:34 PM CST (19:34 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 24, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 25, 2022, 10:00 AM CST
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 229 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-12-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-12-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
379 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Dec 23, 11:21 AM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 11:21 AM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 23, 3:05 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP39 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2022Every freeze warning in 2022

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.