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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Skidmore, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 24, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 235 PM CDT SAT AUG 24 1996 DISCUSSION...BAND OF TROPICAL MOISTURE IS TRANSLATING INLAND ATTM AS KCRP-88D INDICATING 0.50-1.00 INCH OHP TOTALS ACROSS THE REGION WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS (CRP ASOS 2.53 INCHES!)...FFS ISSUED AS BAND MOVED INLAND AND HANDLED THE SITUATION NICELY. ETA/NGM FOUS DATA INDICATES LOWER UVV VALUES AND MOS GUIDANCE HINTS TOWARD LOWER POPS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD AS SFC MOISTURE CNVGNC WEAKENS ACROSS THE AREA. RAFL POTENTIAL DECREASES SIGNIFICANTLY BEYOND 48HRS AS UPPER WAVE PATTERN TRANSFORMS INTO A TROF-RDG-TROF CONFIGURATION ACROSS THE U.S. THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEK. LAND/SEA INTERACTION BNDRY WL BE OUR LIFTING MECHANISM THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED. OTRW...CFW REMAINS THRU SUNDAY AM WITH SCA IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS. THE FORECASTED NUMBERS ARE NEXT... CRP EE 075/089 076/092 076 3420 VCT EE 074/088 075/090 076 3420 LRD EE 075/088 076/094 077 4320 BML...76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 6:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.