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Wind Advisory 17, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 2, 20227 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at May 2, 2022, 10:51 AM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2022, 10:51 AM CDT (15:51 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 1187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 1, 6:32 PM CDT, 16 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 6:32 PM CDT, 16 hours 19 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
May 2, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	45 min
May 2, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	40 min
May 2, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	45 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.