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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 30, 1987Kleberg County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1987, 10:41 PM CDT for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1987, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1987, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kleberg County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1727 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brownsville Intl, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 7:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
705 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 1987

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY FOR
A LARGE PART OF SOUTH TEXAS...

LIGHT RAINSHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN WESTERN
GOLIAD COUNTY AND DEWITT COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 5 MPH.

AT THIS TIME THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING
REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE.
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Special weather statement, May 30, 10:16 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
1010 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 1987

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY FOR
A LARGE PART OF SOUTH TEXAS...

LIGHT RAINSHOWEfRS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN
OCCURRING IN VICTORIA AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

AT THIS TIME THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING
REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells56 min
May 30, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPKleberg56 min
May 30, 10:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells2 hr
May 30, 10:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg2 hr
May 30, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells64 min
May 30, 11:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPSan Patricio63 min
May 31, 12:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells, San Patricio64 min
May 31, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells64 min
May 31, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPSan Patricio64 min
May 31, 2:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPJim Wells, San Patricio3 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.