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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 24, 201915 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Oct 24, 2019, 2:58 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 25, 2019, 12:15 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2019, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 25, 2019, 12:15 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 25, 2019, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 252 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 12:00Z on 2019-10-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1713 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2019-10-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1713 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 10:32 AM CDTGale WarningCRP38 hr
Oct 24, 3:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLive Oak23 min
Oct 24, 3:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPBee33 min
Oct 24, 4:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPBee30 min

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.