Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 6, 2006, 12:54 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2006, 12:54 PM CDT (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -953 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KCRP 061754 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1254 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 TXZ231>234-241>247-062000- /O.NEW.KCRP.WI.Y.0013.060406T1754Z-060406T2000Z/ LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES- SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGE WEST...THREE RIVERS...BEEVILLE... SKIDMORE...GOLIAD...VICTORIA...ALICE...PREMONT...KINGSVILLE... CORPUS CHRISTI...ROBSTOWN...PORT ARANSAS...PORTLAND...INGLESIDE... ARANSAS PASS...SINTON...MATHIS...ROCKPORT...REFUGIO...WOODSBORO... PORT LAVACA...PORT OCONNOR...SEADRIFT 1254 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO 25 TO 35 MPH ACROSS MANY LOCATIONS EAST OF AN ALICE TO THREE RIVERS LINE AND EXTENDING TO THE COAST. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. MOTORISTS...ESPECIALLY HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION TODAY. THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES. SECURE LAWN FURNITURE...GARBAGE CANS...OR OTHER OBJECTS THAT COULD BE BLOWN AROUND BY THE STRONG WINDS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE 25 TO 39 MPH. $$ TE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KCRP 061939 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 239 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 TXZ231>234-241>247-062300- /O.EXT.KCRP.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-060406T2300Z/ LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES- SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGE WEST...THREE RIVERS...BEEVILLE... SKIDMORE...GOLIAD...VICTORIA...ALICE...PREMONT...KINGSVILLE... CORPUS CHRISTI...ROBSTOWN...PORT ARANSAS...PORTLAND...INGLESIDE... ARANSAS PASS...SINTON...MATHIS...ROCKPORT...REFUGIO...WOODSBORO... PORT LAVACA...PORT OCONNOR...SEADRIFT 239 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS... A POTENT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS IS RESULTING IN A STRONG SOUTHERLY WIND. WIND SPEEDS CONTINUE 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH AT TIMES ACROSS MANY LOCATIONS EAST OF AN ALICE TO THREE RIVERS LINE AND EXTENDING TO THE COAST. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. MOTORISTS...ESPECIALLY HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION TODAY. THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES. SECURE LAWN FURNITURE...GARBAGE CANS...OR OTHER OBJECTS THAT COULD BE BLOWN AROUND BY THE STRONG WINDS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE 25 TO 39 MPH. $$ TE
Nearby
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.