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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 15, 202615 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 15, 2026, 2:20 AM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 15, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 21 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2026, 2:20 AM CDT (07:20 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 21 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 07:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 15, 11:17 PM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 58	2 Ne Cotulla, TX	ASOS station KCOT Cotulla.
Mar 16, 2:54 AM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 63	1 Sse Cc Airport, TX	ASOS station KCRP Corpus Christi.
Mar 16, 3:49 AM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 58	1 Nw Fulton, TX	ASOS station KRKP Rockport.
Mar 16, 4:04 AM CDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 59	1 Ese Cc Nas, TX	AWOS station KNGP C. Christi NAS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 1037 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -298 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Mar 15, 1:24 AM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 1:24 AM CDT, 56 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
Mar 15, 2:05 AM CDT	Gale Warning	CRP		35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.