Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 15, 2006, 3:53 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 15, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 15, 2006, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KCRP 150853 RFWCRP RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 353 AM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 TXZ241>244-151700- /O.NEW.KCRP.FW.W.0021.060415T1600Z-060415T2300Z/ JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO- 353 AM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND DUE TO STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND EXTREMELY DRY FUELS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE MID TO LATE MORNING AND REMAIN STRONG INTO THE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL GUST AT TIMES OVER 30 MPH IN SOME AREAS OF THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND. IN ADDITION...RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DROP AT OR BELOW 40 PERCENT ACROSS LOCATIONS AWAY FROM THE WATER IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF THE GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND EXTREMELY DRY FUELS DURING THE ONGOING DROUGHT WILL RESULT IN A HIGH FIRE DANGER TODAY AS WELL AS CONDITIONS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL FIRES. IF A WILDFIRE DOES DEVELOP AND ESCAPES AN INITIAL ATTACK... RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY FOR A SAFE ZONE. MAYORS AND/OR COUNTY JUDGES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DEMAND MANDATORY EVACUATIONS WITHIN TEXAS. PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS AND FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. $$ JR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KCRP 151715 RFWCRP RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1215 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 TXZ241>244-152300- /O.CON.KCRP.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060415T2300Z/ JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO- 1215 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND DUE TO STRONG WIND... LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES AND EXTREMELY DRY FUELS... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE COUNTIES OF SAN PATRICIO...NUECES...KLEBERG AND JIM WELLS. SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WIND OF 20 TO 25 MPH WILL OCCUR OVER THE WARNING AREA THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL TO 35 TO 40 PERCENT ACROSS THE INLAND PORTIONS OF THE WARNING AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF THE THESE WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND EXTREMELY DRY FUELS DURING THE ONGOING DROUGHT WILL RESULT IN A HIGH FIRE DANGER TODAY AS WELL AS CONDITIONS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL FIRES. IF A WILDFIRE DOES DEVELOP AND ESCAPES AN INITIAL ATTACK... RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY FOR A SAFE ZONE. MAYORS AND/OR COUNTY JUDGES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DEMAND MANDATORY EVACUATIONS WITHIN TEXAS. PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS AND FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. $$ 87
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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.