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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 3, 2024, 1:35 PM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 4, 2024, 9:00 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 3, 2024, 1:35 PM CST (19:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 4, 2024, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2024, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 3, 11:09 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 11:09 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 2, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 41 min |
| Feb 2, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 39 min |
| Feb 2, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 49 min |
| Feb 2, 9:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | McMullen | 34 min |
| Feb 2, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 44 min |
| Feb 2, 10:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 40 min |
| Feb 2, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 50 min |
| Feb 2, 10:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 47 min |
| Feb 3, 1:10 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, Victoria | 2 hr |
| Feb 3, 1:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 44 min |
| Feb 3, 3:02 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 43 min |
| Feb 3, 3:37 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 38 min |
| Feb 3, 4:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak | 48 min |
| Feb 3, 4:24 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 36 min |
| Feb 3, 4:50 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:58 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Aransas, Goliad, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria | 47 min |
| Feb 3, 5:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 55 min | |
| Feb 3, 5:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 52 min |
| Feb 3, 5:49 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Calhoun | 26 min |
| Feb 3, 5:58 AM CST | River Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 28 hr |
| Feb 3, 6:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Aransas | 26 min |
| Feb 3, 6:13 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 62 min | |
| Feb 3, 6:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 85 min | |
| Feb 3, 6:53 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 82 min | |
| Feb 3, 7:28 AM CST | River Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 60 hr |
| Feb 3, 7:29 AM CST | River Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 6 days |
| Feb 3, 8:08 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 67 min | |
| Feb 3, 1:31 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 60 hr | |
| Feb 3, 1:33 PM CST | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 28 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.