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Wind Advisory 19, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 23, 20066 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 23, 2006, 3:52 PM CST for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 23, 2006, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2006, 3:52 PM CST (21:52 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 23, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 24, 2006, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 379 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 6:26 AM CST	Marine Weather Statement	CRP		30 hr
Dec 23, 6:56 AM CST	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	23 hr
Dec 23, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	23 min
Dec 23, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	40 min
Dec 23, 3:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	McMullen	20 min
Dec 23, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces	43 min
Dec 23, 4:10 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		50 min
Dec 23, 4:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	24 min
Dec 23, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, San Patricio	46 min
Dec 23, 5:00 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		60 min
Dec 23, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Live Oak	54 min
Dec 23, 5:58 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr

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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.