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Hurricane Warning 1004, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

July 22, 20086 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this hurricane warning at Jul 22, 2008, 12:58 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 22, 2008, 12:58 AM CDT (05:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2008, 9:42 PM CDT
In force
45 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 05:57 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this hurricane warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this hurricane warning went out at Jul 22, 12:19 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 12:19 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 12:58 AM CDTInland Hurricane WarningCRPAransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio4 hr
Jul 22, 12:58 AM CDTHurricane WarningCRP53 days
Jul 22, 5:05 AM CDTInland Tropical Storm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells43 hr
Jul 22, 11:46 AM CDTTropical Storm WarningCRPKleberg, Nueces53 days
Jul 22, 11:46 AM CDTTropical Storm WarningCRPAransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio47 hr

Nearby

Hurricane Warnings in Texas, 2008Every hurricane warning 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.