Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2009
Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 6, 2009, 9:53 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 6, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 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 6, 2009, 9:53 AM CDT (14:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 6, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2009, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:58 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 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.