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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 18, 2008, 6:46 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 18, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Mar 18, 2008, 6:46 AM CDT (11:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:50 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 839 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 18, 3:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 3:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 5:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 524 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-191030- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 524 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE COASTAL BEND THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH THE ATMOSPHERE APPEARS TO BE CAPPED...DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT MAY BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME THE CAP AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. ANY CONVECTION THAT DOES BREAK THE CAP WOULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. VERY DRY AIR FILTERING IN BEHIND THE FRONT WILL INCREASE FIRE DANGER...ESPECIALLY OUT WEST WHERE A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF VERY DRY AIR AND PERSISTENT WINDS. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL CONTINUE FOR MARINE AREAS THROUGH TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR ON WEDNESDAY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL COMBINE WITH THESE GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS...RESULTING IN NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WEDNESDAY. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS FOR WEDNESDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL ALSO OCCUR DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY...BEFORE WINDS DIMINISH WEDNESDAY EVENING. .LONG TERM FIRE WEATHER DISCUSSION... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND WINDS WILL DIMINISH. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST THURSDAY...ALLOWING FOR A RETURN OF ONSHORE FLOW AND MOISTURE TO GRADUALLY RETURN THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA ON SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY TO BE REQUIRED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 6:46 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | CRP | Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:23 AM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | CRP | 5 hr | |
| Mar 18, 12:58 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 15 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:03 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 5 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 3 hr | |
| Mar 18, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 25 min |
| Mar 18, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun | 32 min |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2008Every red flag 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.