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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 8, 2009, 3:37 AM CST for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 8, 2009, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 2009, 3:37 AM CST (09:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 8, 2009, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2009, 11:35 PM CST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Bee 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, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1069 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 Feb 7, 5:51 PM CST, 9 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 7, 5:51 PM CST, 9 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 7, 5:03 AM CST, 22 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 503 AM CST SAT FEB 7 2009 TXZ229>234-239>247-081115- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 503 AM CST SAT FEB 7 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE COMBINATION OF STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND VERY DRY VEGETATION WILL PROVIDE AN ELEVATED WILD FIRE DANGER TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WINDS WILL INCREASE ON SUNDAY IN ADVANCE OF A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. WIND ADVISORIES MAY BE REQUIRED AS WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAINS. A HIGH WILD FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE ON SUNDAY DUE TO THE WINDY CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-081115- 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- 503 AM CST SAT FEB 7 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS AND FOR THE GULF WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO THE MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT TO 60 NM OFFSHORE DUE TO STRONG ONSHORE FLOW AND ELEVATED SEAS ACROSS THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS AT TIMES THROUGH MIDWEEK. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MJG/TM
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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.