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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 23, 2023Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2023, 10:09 AM CDT for Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 2023, 10:09 AM CDT (15:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 374 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -100 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-462 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.