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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 22, 1993Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1993, 4:58 PM CST for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 22, 1993, 4:58 PM CST (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Mar 22, 1993, 6:00 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bee County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-03-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 640 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 5:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLive Oak60 min

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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.