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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 17, 1995Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 1995, 2:53 AM CST for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 1995, 2:53 AM CST (08:53 UTC)
Expired
Dec 17, 1995, 4:00 AM CST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bee County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 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 00:00Z on 1995-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 564 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 00:00Z on 1995-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 4:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPRefugio63 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.