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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Aug 8, 2023, 3:14 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 9, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Aug 8, 2023, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Bee County, TX, Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 120 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
- 1670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:13 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | CRP | Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:16 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 17 hr | |
| Aug 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces, San Patricio | 29 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Kleberg and 7 more | 29 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:22 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 31 hr |
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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.