The Corpus Christi plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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90° on Nov. 16, 2011, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is 89° in 1989.
Corpus Christi’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 10 ft, a difference of 10 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
Corpus Christi has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 51° in January. About 35 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Corpus Christi normally reaches 77° and falls to 62°. The record high is 89°, in 1989; the record low 37°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.30 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Corpus Christi Nas, 9 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
