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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 8, 2024La Salle County, Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 8, 2024, 2:28 AM CST for La Salle County, Webb County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 8, 2024, 10:00 AM CST. 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
Mar 8, 2024, 2:28 AM CST (08:28 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 8, 2024, 10:00 AM CST
Expired
Mar 8, 2024, 4:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties La Salle County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 2:22 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryCRP37 hr
Mar 8, 4:38 AM CSTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryCRP4 hr

Nearby

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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.