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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 8, 2010Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this high surf advisory at Jul 8, 2010, 2:07 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It took effect at Jul 8, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2010, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 8, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 9, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

County Kenedy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Jul 8, 1:46 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:46 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 10:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BRO	Starr	34 days
Jul 8, 12:37 AM CDT	Inland Tropical Storm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy	15 hr
Jul 8, 12:37 AM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	13 hr
Jul 8, 12:37 AM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	BRO		15 hr
Jul 8, 6:50 AM CDT	Hurricane Local Statement	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	9 hr
Jul 8, 11:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	90 min
Jul 8, 11:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Cameron	18 min
Jul 8, 2:07 PM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	BRO	Kenedy	23 hr
Jul 8, 4:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	95 min
Jul 8, 5:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Jim Hogg	96 min
Jul 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Cameron	88 min
Jul 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	BRO		18 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.