Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 23, 2008, 5:49 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2008, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2008, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 1700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KCRP 232249 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 549 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008 TXZ241>244-240200- /O.NEW.KCRP.WI.Y.0021.080423T2249Z-080424T0200Z/ JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALICE...PREMONT...KINGSVILLE... CORPUS CHRISTI...ROBSTOWN...PORT ARANSAS...PORTLAND...INGLESIDE... ARANSAS PASS...SINTON...MATHIS 549 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND DUE TO A DEEPENING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS WEST TEXAS. WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. MOTORISTS...ESPECIALLY HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION TODAY. THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AT TIMES. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO SECURE LAWN FURNITURE...GARBAGE CANS...OR OTHER OBJECTS THAT COULD BE BLOWN AROUND BY THE STRONG WINDS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE 25 TO 35 MPH. $$ TE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KCRP 240130 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 830 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008 TXZ241>244-240230- /O.CAN.KCRP.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-080424T0200Z/ JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALICE...PREMONT...KINGSVILLE... CORPUS CHRISTI...ROBSTOWN...PORT ARANSAS...PORTLAND...INGLESIDE... ARANSAS PASS...SINTON...MATHIS 830 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. SOUTHEAST WINDS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND HAVE DECREASED TO BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH TONIGHT TO AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH. $$ TE
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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.