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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this heat advisory at Jun 12, 2012, 4:01 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 12, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2012, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 12, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.