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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

February 21, 2023Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 21, 2023, 3:33 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 21, 2023, 4:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 2023, 3:33 PM CST (21:33 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 21, 2023, 4:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 21, 2023, 9:00 PM CST
In force
5 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 21:36 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 358 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 2023-02-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2023-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 20, 11:05 PM CSTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryCRP10 hr
Feb 21, 3:39 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP56 hr
Feb 21, 10:41 AM CSTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryCRP3 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.