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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 5, 2022, 3:14 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 6, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 5, 2022, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 6, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 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 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Apr 5, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:41 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Dimmit | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | McMullen | 30 min |
| Apr 5, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen, San Patricio | 39 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.