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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 9:32 PM CDT for Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Refugio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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, Apr 22, 7:32 PM CDT, 2 hours before
TXZ231-232-241-242-243-244-245-246-512-230130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 731 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR MOST OF THE COASTAL BEND... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR THE COASTAL BEND COUNTIES OF NUECES...ARANSAS...BEE...JIM WELLS... KLEBERG...REFUGIO...SAN PATRICIO...LIVE OAK...AND ALL ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THIS WATCH DOES INCLUDE THE CORPUS CHRISTI METROPOLITAN AREA. AT 725 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN GEORGE WEST AND THREE RIVERS IN LIVE OAK COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN VICTORIA AND SAN ANTONIO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE COASTAL BEND SHOULD STAY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD OCCUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 7:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TXZ233-234-247-230200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 744 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR GOLIAD COUNTY TILL 815 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR VICTORIA ...CALHOUN AND GOLIAD COUNTIES... AT 740 PM VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF GOLIAD MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE EFFECTING THE CITY OF GOLIAD BY 750 PM. THE TOWNS GOLIAD AND FANNIN ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THE STORM. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL TV FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND WARNINGS$ ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 48 min |
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.