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Extreme Cold Warning 1, NWS Brownsville, TX

January 20, 20258 counties in Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this extreme cold warning at Jan 20, 2025, 4:51 AM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 21, 2025, 3:00 AM CST. 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 20, 2025, 4:51 AM CST (10:51 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 21, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 21, 2025, 9:00 AM 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 10:56 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this extreme cold 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 extreme cold warning went out at Jan 20, 4:18 AM CST, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 4:18 AM CST, 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 20, 2:41 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	BRO	Cameron	6 hr
Jan 20, 2:50 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	54 hr
Jan 20, 2:50 AM CST	Freeze Watch	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	25 hr
Jan 20, 2:50 AM CST	Freeze Warning	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	31 hr
Jan 20, 3:53 AM CST	Gale Warning	BRO		36 hr
Jan 20, 3:53 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	BRO		23 hr
Jan 20, 8:59 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BRO	Cameron	26 hr
Jan 20, 1:36 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	BRO	Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more	13 hr
Jan 20, 1:49 PM CST	Wind Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	21 hr
Jan 20, 2:27 PM CST	High Surf Advisory	BRO	Cameron, Kenedy, Willacy	46 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.