Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 29, 2006, 4:52 AM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 29, 2006, 10:00 AM CDT. 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
- Apr 29, 2006, 4:52 AM CDT (09:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2006, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Bee County, TX, Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1970 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.