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Heat Advisory 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 18, 2019Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this heat advisory at Aug 18, 2019, 3:00 AM CDT for Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It took effect at Aug 18, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 2019, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 18, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 18, 2019, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1105 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.0

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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.