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Wind Advisory 27, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 23, 2009, 4:05 PM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 24, 2009, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2009, 4:05 PM CST (22:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 24, 2009, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 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 22:04 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Dec 23, 11:46 AM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 11:46 AM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 5:57 AM CST, 10 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 557 AM CST WED DEC 23 2009 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-241200- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 557 AM CST WED DEC 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COASTAL BEND TONIGHT ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND AND VICTORIA CROSSROADS THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE EXPECTED ON THURSDAY...THEN AGAIN ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AS A COASTAL TROUGH DEVELOPS AND HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO TEXAS...DEVELOPING A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT. FINALLY...THERE IS A LOW CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MAINLY OVER THE GULF WATERS...HOWEVER AT THIS TIME INSTABILITY WILL BE QUITE LOW FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 23, 2:52 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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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.