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Red Flag Warning 20, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 5, 2008La Salle County, Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Jun 5, 2008, 3:45 AM CDT for La Salle County, Webb County, Texas. It took effect at Jun 5, 2008, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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: Jun 5, 2008, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 5, 2008, 2:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 5, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties La Salle County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 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 Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 6:04 AM CDT, 21 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
604 AM CDT WED JUN 4 2008

GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-051115-
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-
604 AM CDT WED JUN 4 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE
TEXAS COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE BAYS AND COASTAL
WATERS TODAY AND TONIGHT. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE
RIO GRANDE PLAINS FOR THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS WILL BRING SOME MINOR RELIEF TO THE
HEAT...THROUGH FRIDAY WITH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES EXPECTED OVER THE
MARINE AREAS. A TROPICAL WAVE WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH TEXAS THIS
WEEKEND RESULTING IN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH
TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

87/75

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 4:19 PM CDT	Coastal Flood Statement	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	49 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.