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Wind Advisory 24, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 7, 200911 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Oct 7, 2009, 8:31 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 8, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 2009, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 8, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 8, 2009, 7:36 PM CDT
In force
10 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 01:33 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 253 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 2009-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2310 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2009-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
2310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.