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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 17, 20168 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 17, 2016, 4:05 PM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 18, 2016, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 2016, 4:05 PM CST (22:05 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 18, 2016, 3:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 18, 2016, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -652 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 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 chill 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 chill advisory went out at Dec 17, 12:20 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 12:20 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 9:39 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	CRP	Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak and 4 more	10 hr
Dec 17, 3:41 AM CST	Gale Warning	CRP		35 hr
Dec 17, 3:54 AM CST	Rip Current Statement	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces	20 hr
Dec 17, 3:54 PM CST	Freeze Watch	CRP	Bee, Goliad, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Victoria	22 hr
Dec 17, 3:54 PM CST	Wind Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more	18 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Texas, 2016 Every wind chill advisory in 2016

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.