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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 12, 1996Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1996, 8:10 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1996, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Victoria County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 1996-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1352 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 1996-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRP 130121
SVRCRP
TXC469-130215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
810 PM CDT MON AUG 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...VICTORIA COUNTY
 
AT 805 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
INTO THE EXTREME NORTH PORTION OF VICTORIA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POFSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. STAY
INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPJim Wells, Nueces63 min
Aug 13, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLive Oak58 min
Aug 13, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPGoliad55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.