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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 23, 200913 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2009, 4:29 AM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 23, 2009, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 2009, 4:29 AM CDT (09:29 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 23, 2009, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 23, 2009, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
9 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, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:35 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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 251 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 110 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 3:57 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP54 hr

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.