Definitely moot.
Do salt nuclei sufficiently mix into the midlevels? Just trying to imagine this hypothetical scenario with NW flow below 825 and the southerly flow above that. The low level nuclei in that 850 cold zone would be advecting the salt out of the low levels, but you could obviously still be advecting some in from the midlevel warm conveyor.
But yeah, I usually see those ZR situations in a column below freezing out in the Plains and it's usually more drastic than this.