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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 3, 2010La Salle County, Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Nov 3, 2010, 11:02 AM CDT for La Salle County, Webb County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 3, 2010, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 3, 2010, 11:02 AM CDT (16:02 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 3, 2010, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Nov 3, 2010, 5:49 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties La Salle County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-11-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-11-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 3, 5:44 AM CDTGale WarningCRP31 hr
Nov 3, 5:44 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP53 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010

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.