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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 25, 2011, 12:58 PM CST for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 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
- Jan 25, 2011, 12:58 PM CST (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2011, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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, 7.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
379 WWUS84 KCRP 251858 RFWCRP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1258 PM CST TUE JAN 25 2011 TXZ229>231-239>244-252300- /O.NEW.KCRP.FW.W.0002.110125T1858Z-110125T2300Z/ LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-WEBB-DUVAL-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES- SAN PATRICIO- 1258 PM CST TUE JAN 25 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE DECREASED TO THE UPPER 20S TO UPPER 30S ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND CONTINUE TO FALL. MUCH OF THE REGION WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES RANGING FROM 25 TO 35 PERCENT WITH LOWEST VALUES ACROSS THE BRUSH COUNTRY. IN ADDITION WINDS HAVE BEEN GUSTING TO 20 TO 30 MPH OUT OF THE NORTHWEST AND THESE GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTING TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST MID AFTERNOON BEFORE SUBSIDING. THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PROVIDE A HIGH WILD FIRE DANGER ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS AND FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. ANY OUTDOOR BURNING OR PRESCRIBED BURNS ARE NOT ADVISED IN THE WARNED AREA TODAY AS FIRES CAN QUICKLY BECOME OUT OF CONTROL IN THESE CONDITIONS. && $$ MJG
1 follow-up statement
106 WWUS84 KCRP 252304 RFWCRP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 504 PM CST TUE JAN 25 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... .RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE DECREASED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. TXZ229>231-239>244-260015- /O.EXP.KCRP.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110125T2300Z/ LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-WEBB-DUVAL-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES- SAN PATRICIO- 504 PM CST TUE JAN 25 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO 10 TO 15 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL SLOWLY RECOVER THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 9:15 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 21 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.