Moderate drought conditions across portions of the La Salle County worsened to severe drought during the month of February. Above normal temperatures and very little precipitation occurred during the latter portion of the month after the arctic cold spell during the first week of February.
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Moderate drought conditions across portions of the La Salle County worsened to severe drought during the month of February. Above normal temperatures and very little precipitation occurred during the latter portion of the month after the arctic cold spell during the first week of February.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Feb 15, 11:36 PM CST, 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1136 PM CST TUE FEB 15 2011 .DISCUSSION...NOTE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .AVIATION...MVFR CEILINGS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION OVERNIGHT. VISIBILITY (MVFR) RESTRICTIONS DUE TO PATCHY FOG ANTICIPATED DURING THE 09-13Z WED PERIOD. PATCHY SEA FOG MAY DEVELOP OVER THE BAYS/NEARSHORE WATERS. MVFR CEILINGS WILL TRANSITION TO VFR CONDITIONS DRG THE APPROXIMATELY 18Z-21Z WED PERIOD. BREEZY ONSHORE WIND EXPECTED DRG THE LATE MORNING/AFTN HOURS WED MAINLY EAST OF US 281. INCREASING SEA FOG EXPECTED OVER THE BAYS/NEARSHORE WATERS JUST AFTER THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1036 PM CST TUE FEB 15 2011/ DISCUSSION...BASED ON RECENT OBSERVATIONS/NAM DETERMINISTIC SOUNDING OUTPUT/11-3.9 MICRON IMAGERY/EXPECTED WIND...ADJUSTED FCST TO DECREASE FOG COVERAGE TO PATCHY OVER LAND. ALSO DECREASED SEA FOG TO PATCHY OVER THE BAYS/NEARSHORE WATERS. DECREASED FOG TIMING TO COMMENCEMENT AROUND 09Z WED. MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO MIN TEMPS FOR TNGT. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 556 PM CST TUE FEB 15 2011/ DISCUSSION...PLEASE SEE UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION. AVIATION...CURRENT VFR CONDITIONS WILL BECOME MVFR DUE TO CEILINGS ACROSS THE EASTERN SITES AROUND 04Z...REACHING SITE KLRD AROUND 07Z. A 25KT LLJ WILL ALLOW A STRATUS DECK TO DEVELOP AND CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY TOMORROW. LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL ALLOW WINDS TO MAINTAIN AROUND 10 KNOTS OVERNIGHT ACROSS SITES KCRP...KALI AND KLRD. WINDS HOWEVER WILL DECOUPLE OVER KVCT WHERE LIFR CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP DUE TO FOG. DUE BELIEVE THAT SITES KCRP AND KALI WILL SEE VISIBILITIES DROP TO MVFR. WINDS WILL INCREASE AS TEMPS INCREASE ALLOWING FOR MIXING. CIGS WILL GRADUALLY LIFT FROM WEST TO EAST FOR ALL SITES EXCEPT SITE KVCT BY LATE MORNING. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 355 PM CST TUE FEB 15 2011/ SHORT TERM...DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND ISSUE AN RFD FOR THE BRUSH COUNTRY AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE FALLEN TO 35 TO 45 PERCENT AND SOUTH/SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE UP BETWEEN 10 AND 25 MPH. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN SEVERAL FIRES SEEN ON IR...AND AT LEAST ONE REPORTED OVER LA SALLE COUNTY. CLOUDS HAVE MOSTLY CLEARED OUT ACROSS THE CWA...WITH ONLY SCATTERED CLOUDS ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAINS. IT IS A VERY WARM DAY ACROSS THE REGION...WITH TEMPS IN THE LOW TO MID 80S ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE AND BRUSH COUNTRY AND THE 70S ELSEWHERE. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE NEAR TERM...WITH VERY DRY AIR ABOVE 900MB DUE TO WINDS ALOFT BEING OUT OF THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. THE LOW LEVEL JET IS EXPECTED TO BE A LITTLE WEAKER TONIGHT THAN LAST NIGHT SO EXPECT A LITTLE MORE FOG DEVELOPMENT INLAND. HOWEVER...THE LLJ IS STILL STRONG ENOUGH TO GET STRATUS GOING LATE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE BRUSH COUNTRY AND THEN SPREAD ACROSS THE REST OF THE CWA. THE BEST CHANCE OF FOG WILL BE ACROSS THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS WHERE AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE. SEA FOG MAY ALSO BE AN ISSUE...WITH IT ADVECTING INLAND...MAINLY FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY SEA FOG THUS FAR EVEN WITH THE DEWPOINTS BEING AROUND 5 DEGREES ABOVE THE WATER TEMPERATURE. THIS MAY BE DUE TO WINDS REMAINING ELEVATED AND IT BEING A LITTLE TOO UNSTABLE OVER THE WATER. MODELS ARE SHOWING MORE STABILITY OVER THE WATER TONIGHT...AND MUCH MORE FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THEREFORE...NOT CONFIDENT ON THE SEA FOG ACTUALLY DEVELOPING TONIGHT...BUT CONFIDENCE INCREASES FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. LOWS TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL BE MAINLY NEAR 60 TO THE MID 60S...EXCEPT TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE MID TO UPPER 50S FOR PLACES WHERE FOG FORMS. STRATUS IS EXPECTED TO SCATTER QUICKLY ACROSS THE WEST...BUT MAY HOLD ON ACROSS THE EAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO WARM QUICKLY INTO THE 80S ON WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE AND BRUSH COUNTRY...WHILE TEMPERATURES ALONG THE COAST HOLD IN THE 70S. THE GRADIENT WILL STRENGTHEN AND WINDS WILL INCREASE OVER THE COASTAL PLAINS TO 15 TO 20 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THE LOW LEVEL JET IS EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 30 KNOTS WEDNESDAY NIGHT...SO EXPECT MORE STRATUS DEVELOPMENT AND FOG DEVELOPMENT AGAIN. LONG TERM (THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)...THE SPRING-LIKE PATTERN WILL CONTINUE AS A ZONAL FLOW DOMINATES THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK AND THE NEXT TROUGH THAT DEVELOPS REMAINS ACROSS THE ROCKIES THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THIS MEANS TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN WELL ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD AND SOME DAYS WILL BE BREEZY ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAINS AS ONSHORE WINDS INCREASE IN RESPONSE TO S/WVS TRAVERSING THE PLAINS. CURRENTLY...IT APPEARS THE MORE BREEZY DAYS WILL BE THU AND SUN BASED ON MODEL TIMING OF THESE SYSTEMS AND THE WRN US TROUGH. COLD SHELF WATERS AND VERY STABLE CONDITIONS WILL HELP LIMIT WIND SPEEDS ACROSS THE NEARSHORE WATERS THROUGH THE PERIOD. DEPENDING ON HOW WELL THE COOLER SHELF WATERS HOLD DOWN WIND SPEEDS...SEA FOG MAY BE AN ISSUE. THIS IS ESPECIALLY THE CASE EARLY IN THE WEEKEND WHEN WIND SPEEDS DECREASE AND BACK A LITTLE AND DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO RISE. MOISTURE REMAINS RATHER LIMITED AND SHALLOW ALTHOUGH VERY MOIST BELOW THE STRONG CAPPING INVERSION EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN PLACE. MODELS ARE KEYING ON THIS AND ARE TRYING TO GENERATE LIGHT PRECIP OVER THE WEEKEND. MOISTURE IS SO SHALLOW THAT IT SEEMS LIKE ONLY CLOUDS W/ POSSIBLY SOME DRIZZLE/SPRINKLES TO GO WITH THE SEA FOG ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. BASED ON THIS WENT WITH 10 POPS AND NOT MENTIONING THE DRIZZLE/SPRINKLES FOR NOW. BY MONDAY...MOISTURE IS DEEPER AND THERE IS SOME POTENTIAL FOR A WEAK FRONT NEAR THE AREA (MODELS ARE NOT IN GOOD AGREEMENT W/ THE FRONT W/ ECMWF MOST AGGRESSIVE)...SO WILL KEEP THE 20 POPS ACROSS THE ERN 2/3RDS MON AND TUE. MARINE...MODERATE ONSHORE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AS THE LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS TO AROUND 20-25 KNOTS. WINDS MAY STRENGTHEN TO NEAR SCA CONDITIONS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS THE LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS. HOWEVER...IT WILL BE MORE STABLE OVER THE WATER SO THIS SHOULD OFFSET THE STRONGER LLJ. SEA FOG MAY DEVELOP TONIGHT AS WINDS RELAX OVER THE BAYS AND NEARSHORE WATERS. SEA FOG IS LIKELY EACH NIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS DEWPOINTS REMAIN HIGH AND THE GULF WATERS BECOME MORE STABLE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 60 76 62 72 63 / 10 10 10 10 10 VICTORIA 58 75 58 72 61 / 10 10 10 10 10 LAREDO 64 87 65 85 64 / 10 10 10 10 10 ALICE 60 80 61 80 62 / 10 10 10 10 10 ROCKPORT 62 72 62 67 63 / 10 10 10 10 10 COTULLA 57 84 59 81 59 / 10 10 10 10 10 KINGSVILLE 61 80 62 79 64 / 10 10 10 10 10 NAVY CORPUS 61 73 64 66 63 / 10 10 10 10 10 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && WC/87...SHORT TERM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 400 PM CST TUE FEB 15 2011 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-162200- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT O'CONNOR- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 400 PM CST TUE FEB 15 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AREAS OF FOG MAY DEVELOP TONIGHT WITH LOCALLY DENSE FOG POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS. AREAS OF SEA FOG MAY ALSO DEVELOP ACROSS THE BAYS AND NEARSHORE WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AREAS OF SEA FOG ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EACH NIGHT THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE BAYS AND NEARSHORE WATERS...REDUCING VISIBILITY AND MAKING NAVIGATION HAZARDOUS. THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING...INLAND FOG...POSSIBLY DENSE AT TIMES...IS EXPECTED TO FORM DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS EACH DAY. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES COMBINED WITH MODERATE WINDS WILL PRODUCE ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE AFTERNOON AT TIMES OVER THE WESTERN BRUSH COUNTRY AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. AK/MJG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought developed over portions of La Salle County during the latter part of the month.
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