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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 21, 20228 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 21, 2022, 3:43 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 21, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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: Mar 21, 2022, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 21, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 21, 2022, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 274 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 21, 1:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 1:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 20, 11:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 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
Mar 21, 3:43 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	CRP	Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak and 4 more	24 hr
Mar 21, 3:47 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces	39 hr
Mar 21, 1:18 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	6 hr
Mar 21, 2:49 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	CRP		44 hr
Mar 21, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	27 min
Mar 21, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	24 min

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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.