October 25-26 2009 severe wind

October 22-26 2009 Fronts and
Heavy rain Coastal Bend (severe wind)

Alex Tardy, NWS Corpus Christi

Radar Loops	Upper Air Data
Rainfall and Verification	Mesoanalyses

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Radar

Front weakened east of the Brush Country	Coastal convection and severe wind (Aransas)	Solid line of convection and severe wind (Nueces)

KCRP base reflectivity loop starting 0004 UTC 22 October 2009.	KCRP base reflectivity loop starting 1705 UTC 25 October	KCRP base reflectivity loop starting 0501 UTC 26 October.

Preciptation forecast and verification

Upper Air (GPS-MET precipitable water plot). Red diamond is CRP upper air measurement.

MesoAnalyses on October 25

1900 UTC

Wind at 1900 UTC	Moisture convergence at 1900 UTC	925 mb at 1900 UTC	850 mb at 1900 UTC

1900 UTC

700 mb	500 mb	300 mb

1900 UTC

Surface based CAPE	Mixed layer CAPE	Effective Shear	850 and 500 mb cross-over

Observations

Weather Conditions for:
Elev: 43 ft; Latitude: 27.77306; Longitude: -97.51278

Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi International Airport, TX (KCRP)

Current time:	Sun, 25 Oct 18:44 pm (CDT)
Most Recent Observation:	Sun, 25 Oct 5:51 pm (CDT)

Time	Temp.	Dew	Relative	Wind	Wind	Visibility	WX	Clouds	Sea Level	Altimeter	Station	Precip	6 Hr	6 Hr	24 Hr	24 Hr	Quality
		Point	Humidity	Direction	Speed				Pressure	Setting	Pressure	1 hour	Max	Min	Max	Min	Control
(CDT)	(f)	(f)	(%)		(mph)	(miles)			(mb)	(inches)	(inches)	(inches)	Temp	Temp	Temp	Temp
25 Oct 5:51 pm	78	74	87	SE	12	10.00		FEW022	1009.2	29.81	29.773	0.01					OK
25 Oct 4:51 pm	76	73	91	SE	6	7.00	-RA	FEW025 SCT040 BKN065	1009.5	29.82	29.783	0.01					OK
25 Oct 4:45 pm	75	72	89	SSE	3	6.00	RA BR	FEW025 BKN040 BKN065		29.82	29.783	0.01					OK
25 Oct 3:51 pm	75	69	82	SE	18	10.00	-TSRA	FEW018 SCT025CB BKN037	1009.8	29.82	29.783	T					OK
25 Oct 3:15 pm	79	75	89	SSE	15	10.00	TS	FEW022CB BKN030 BKN048		29.82	29.783	T					OK
25 Oct 2:58 pm	77	73	89	S	9G21	6.00	-TSRA BR	SCT005 BKN020CB OVC031		29.83	29.792	T					OK
25 Oct 2:51 pm	75	73	94	E	12G29	2.00	TSRA BR	SCT005 BKN020CB OVC040	1010.3	29.84	29.802	0.92					OK
25 Oct 2:42 pm	75	73	94	E	8G17	0.50	+TSRA FG	BKN005 BKN020CB OVC040		29.84	29.802	0.42					OK
25 Oct 2:30 pm	75	72	89	S	12	1.00	+TSRA BR	SCT007 BKN020CB OVC030		29.83	29.792	0.15					OK
25 Oct 2:28 pm	75	72	89	S	14	1.00	+TSRA BR	FEW015 BKN023CB OVC042		29.83	29.792	0.06					OK
25 Oct 2:24 pm	75	72	89	S	22G26	2.00	-TSRA BR	FEW015 BKN025CB BKN035		29.83	29.792	0.01					OK
25 Oct 2:14 pm	79	73	84	SSE	16	10.00	TS	FEW015 BKN025CB BKN035		29.83	29.792	T					OK
25 Oct 2:01 pm	81	72	74	SSE	13	8.00	-TSRA	FEW025CB BKN040 BKN090		29.84	29.802	T					OK
25 Oct 1:51 pm	83	71	68	SSE	21G26	10.00	-RA	FEW025CB SCT040 BKN070	1010.4	29.84	29.802	T					OK
25 Oct 1:42 pm	84	72	66	SSE	18	10.00		FEW025CB SCT035 BKN090		29.84	29.802						OK
25 Oct 12:51 pm	80	73	79	SSE	15	10.00	TS	SCT027CB SCT034 BKN080	1011.3	29.87	29.832	T	84	68			OK
25 Oct 12:36 pm	79	72	79	SE	21G26	10.00	-TSRA	SCT027CB BKN035 OVC055		29.88	29.842	T					OK
25 Oct 11:51 am	83	70	65	SE	22G31	10.00		SCT027 BKN032 BKN060	1011.7	29.88	29.842						OK
25 Oct 11:41 am	82	70	66	SE	24G31	10.00		BKN027 BKN035 OVC043		29.88	29.842						OK
25 Oct 10:51 am	84	70	63	SE	22G29	10.00		FEW027 BKN030 BKN060	1011.7	29.88	29.842						OK
25 Oct 9:51 am	80	69	69	SSE	18G25	10.00		FEW028 SCT045 SCT060	1011.6	29.88	29.842						OK
25 Oct 8:51 am	76	70	82	SE	10	10.00		FEW035 OVC060	1011.4	29.87	29.832						OK
25 Oct 7:51 am	73	68	84	SE	10	10.00		FEW050 BKN060	1011.0	29.86	29.822						O

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