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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 10, 2009, 6:01 AM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 11, 2009, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 16 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
- Feb 10, 2009, 6:01 AM CST (12:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2009, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2009, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:05 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Feb 10, 5:22 AM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 5:22 AM CST, 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 9, 12:19 PM CST, 17 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1219 PM CST MON FEB 9 2009 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-101830- 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- 1219 PM CST MON FEB 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL CONTINUE DUE TO LARGE SEAS FOR THE NEARSHORE AND OFFSHORE WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD FOR THE COASTAL WATERS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR WEDNESDAY. CRITICALLY LOW HUMIDITIES BELOW 10 PERCENT ALONG WITH NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO 25 MPH OR MORE WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD RED FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS. THIS WILL BE A VERY DANGEROUS FIRE THREAT. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF A SEVERE STORM OR TWO ACROSS THE NORTHEAST COASTAL BEND FROM LATE TUESDAY EVENING INTO TO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WOULD BE THE MAIN THREATS IF SEVERE STORMS DO IN FACT DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF A RAPIDLY APPROACHING COLD FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TUESDAY EVENING. MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 6:26 PM CST | Marine Weather Statement | CRP | 17 hr | |
| Feb 10, 3:40 AM CST | Wind Advisory | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 15 hr |
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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.