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High Surf Advisory 6, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this high surf advisory at Sep 10, 2008, 8:56 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 11, 2008, 2:48 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2008, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 11, 2008, 2:48 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2008, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
County Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 7:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:21 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BRO | 9 hr | |
| Sep 10, 8:56 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 3 days |
| Sep 11, 4:46 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | BRO | 18 hr | |
| Sep 11, 10:48 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 39 hr |
| Sep 11, 10:48 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | BRO | 39 hr | |
| Sep 11, 3:17 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BRO | 8 hr |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in Texas, 2008Every high surf advisory in 2008
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.