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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this freeze warning at Jan 15, 2024, 9:46 AM CST for 8 counties in Texas. 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 15, 2024, 9:46 AM CST (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2024, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 555 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 594 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Jan 15, 9:26 AM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 9:26 AM CST, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 3:37 AM CST | Gale Warning | BRO | 30 hr | |
| Jan 15, 3:41 AM CST | Freeze Watch | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy | 24 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:41 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:41 AM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Zapata | 24 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:48 AM CST | Wind Chill Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 35 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:48 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 15, 6:38 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | BRO | Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy | 41 hr |
| Jan 15, 11:21 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | BRO | 13 hr | |
| Jan 15, 12:59 PM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Zapata | 21 hr |
| Jan 15, 1:03 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 1 more | 5 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.