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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

January 2, 201811 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 2, 2018, 5:13 AM CST for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 2, 2018, 10:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 2, 2018, 5:13 AM CST (11:13 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 2, 2018, 10:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 2, 2018, 11:00 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:15 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 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 329 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 Jan 1, 5:31 PM CST, 11 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 5:31 PM CST, 11 hours 42 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
Jan 2, 4:03 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	CRP		35 hr
Jan 2, 5:23 AM CST	Freeze Warning	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more	29 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.