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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

February 16, 202310 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 16, 2023, 4:08 AM CST for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 16, 2023, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 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: Feb 16, 2023, 4:08 AM CST (10:08 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 16, 2023, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 16, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

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

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:10 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 1475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -347 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Feb 16, 12:01 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 12:01 AM CST, 4 hours 7 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
Feb 16, 3:29 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	CRP		42 hr
Feb 16, 10:03 AM CST	Wind Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 5 more	8 hr
Feb 16, 12:17 PM CST	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces	5 hr
Feb 16, 2:15 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	CRP	Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb	4 hr

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.