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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 11, 2023Duval County, La Salle County, Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Aug 11, 2023, 3:13 PM CDT for Duval County, La Salle County, Webb County, Texas. It took effect at Aug 12, 2023, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 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 11, 2023, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 12, 2023, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Aug 12, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Duval County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1341 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-303 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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 Aug 11, 2:53 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:53 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 3:08 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP30 hr
Aug 11, 3:10 PM CDTExcessive Heat WarningCRPJim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces and 1 more29 hr
Aug 11, 3:10 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryCRPAransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Kleberg and 5 more29 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.