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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 5, 2012, 9:26 AM CST for 7 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 5, 2012, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2012, 9:26 AM CST (15:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2012, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2012, 10:59 AM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:27 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381 WWUS74 KCRP 051526 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 926 AM CST SUN FEB 5 2012 ...GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH NOON... .AS RAIN EXITS THE AREA THIS MORNING GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN COASTAL COUNTIES. GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 35MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON. TXZ241>247-051800- /O.NEW.KCRP.WI.Y.0003.120205T1600Z-120205T1800Z/ JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALICE...ORANGE GROVE...KINGSVILLE... CORPUS CHRISTI...PORTLAND...INGLESIDE...ARANSAS PASS...SINTON... MATHIS...ROCKPORT...REFUGIO...WOODSBORO...PORT LAVACA 926 AM CST SUN FEB 5 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY. * TIMING...THROUGH NOON TODAY. * WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 35 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE 25 TO 39 MPH OR HAVE GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH OR HIGHER. && $$ PZ
1 follow-up statement
132 WWUS74 KCRP 051659 NPWCRP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1059 AM CST SUN FEB 5 2012 TXZ241>247-051800- /O.CAN.KCRP.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120205T1800Z/ JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALICE...ORANGE GROVE...KINGSVILLE... CORPUS CHRISTI...PORTLAND...INGLESIDE...ARANSAS PASS...SINTON... MATHIS...ROCKPORT...REFUGIO...WOODSBORO...PORT LAVACA 1059 AM CST SUN FEB 5 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND GUSTS ACROSS THE AREA HAVE DECREASED...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. $$ PZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 40 min |
| Feb 4, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 43 min |
| Feb 4, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 36 min |
| Feb 4, 9:07 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces | 113 min |
| Feb 4, 10:23 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 112 min |
| Feb 4, 11:35 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 85 min | |
| Feb 4, 11:46 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces | 119 min |
| Feb 5, 12:18 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Nueces | 87 min |
| Feb 5, 12:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 92 min |
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.