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Special Weather Statement, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2017, 3:28 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2017, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2017, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
County Jim Wells County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 2086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 6:27 PM CDT, 21 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 6:27 PM CDT, 21 hours 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 9, 3:20 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CRP | 36 hr | |
| Aug 9, 3:49 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces | 12 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:49 PM CDT | Rip Current Statement | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces | 49 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Victoria | 23 min |
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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.