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Hurricane Warning 1004, NWS NHC

July 21, 20087 counties in Texas

NWS NHC issued this hurricane warning at Jul 21, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 48 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 21, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2008, 9:43 PM CDT
In force
48 hr
Issued by
NWS NHC

Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio 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 03:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 12 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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The office that day

Everything else NWS NHC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 10:00 PM CDTTropical Storm WarningNHCAransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Jackson, Kenedy, Kleberg and 4 more66 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.