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Hurricane Warning 1008, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

July 24, 20207 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this hurricane warning at Jul 24, 2020, 4:04 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 30 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
Jul 24, 2020, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2020, 9:59 PM CDT
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 2020-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2473 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 2020-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 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
2473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this hurricane warning 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 hurricane warning went out at Jul 24, 11:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 11:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 9:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchCRPAransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 7 more56 hr
Jul 24, 4:04 PM CDTStorm Surge WarningCRPAransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio36 hr

Nearby

Hurricane Warnings in Texas, 2020Every hurricane warning in 2020

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.