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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

February 3, 202415 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 3, 2024, 1:33 PM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 3, 2024, 11:00 PM CST. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 3, 2024, 1:33 PM CST (19:33 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 3, 2024, 11:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 4, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 50 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 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 3, 11:09 AM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 11:09 AM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 3, 12:02 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 1:35 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen and 2 more	31 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.