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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 19, 2019, 4:15 AM CST for 9 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 19, 2019, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2019, 4:15 AM CST (10:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2019, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 10:28 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 11 hr | |
| Jan 19, 3:54 AM CST | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 13 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.