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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

April 3, 20084 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 3, 2008, 11:39 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 4, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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: Apr 3, 2008, 11:39 AM CDT (16:39 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 4, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 4, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Duval County, TX, La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -436 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 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 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 Apr 3, 6:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

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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
Apr 3, 5:07 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more	14 hr
Apr 3, 5:20 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	CRP	Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb	6 hr
Apr 3, 11:39 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces	17 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2008 Every 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.