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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 19, 20104 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 19, 2010, 3:43 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 19, 2010, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 19, 2010, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 19, 2010, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 19, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 2010-03-19Temperature 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2010-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Mar 18, 11:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 11:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 4:00 AM CDTGale WatchCRP18 hr
Mar 19, 4:20 AM CDTFire Weather WatchCRPDuval, Jim Wells, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Webb17 hr
Mar 19, 3:35 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP55 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.