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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 13, 202511 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 13, 2025, 2:18 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 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 13, 2025, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 14, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Bee 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, San Patricio County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 301 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 2025-03-13Temperature 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 2025-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 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
Mar 13, 3:25 AM CDTFire Weather WatchCRPBee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 8 more11 hr
Mar 13, 3:25 AM CDTFire Weather WatchCRPAransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more36 hr
Mar 13, 7:26 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryCRPBee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak and 4 more3 hr
Mar 13, 9:35 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryCRPAransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio52 min
Mar 13, 9:50 AM CDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryCRP15 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.