Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 5:50 PM CST for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2000, 5:50 PM CST (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Webb County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Laredo, TX | |
| Mar 9, 6:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Laredo, 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 198 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
- 1482 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
094 WUUS54 KCRP 092349 SVRCRP TXC479-100030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 550 PM CST THU MAR 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 548 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORVIL...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAREDO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. BORDER PATROL AGENTS REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WITH THIS STORM NORTH OF LAREDO ON INTERSTATE 35. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS... HIGHWAY 59 ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAREDO AROUND 615 PM. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... LAT...LON 2788 9954 2758 9952 2751 9904 2802 9910
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 Mar 9, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 230 PM CST THU MAR 9 2000 PARTLY CLOUDY...WARM...AND HUMID CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPS HAVE EXCEEDED PREVIOUS FORECAST...AND REQUIRED AN UPDATE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. UPPER LOW AND TROF DEEPEN AND DIGS SOUTH ACROSS N TX AND OK OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS. A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING...WITH DECENT VERTICAL LIFT AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY. AS HAS BEEN THE CASE THIS YEAR...THIS FRONT WILL HAVE THE BEST DYNAMICS TOO FAR NORTH TO EXPECT WIDESPREAD RAINFALL. ADDITIONALLY...THE SOUTHERN CWA WILL FALL INTO THE DREADED SOUTHWEST FLOW IN THE MID LEVELS PRIOR TO FROPA...WHICH WILL EFFECTIVELY CHOKE OFF CONVECTION FOR THOSE SECTIONS. THE BEST CHANCES FOR ANY ACTIVITY WILL BE CONFINED TO THE NORTHEASTERN CWA...THEREFORE WILL SHADE POPS HIGHER IN THOSE AREAS. TEMPERATURES FOR FRI ARE INFLUENCED BY THE WARM HIGHS TODAY. MESO ETA HAD A GOOD HANDLE ON THE TEMPS TODAY...AND WILL USE ITS GUIDANCE TO SHADE TEMPS WARMER. AFTER FROPA...STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL ADVECT DRY AIR INTO THE AREA. WITH THE PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF THE UPPER LOW...EXPECT TO SEE CLEARING QUICKLY ON SATURDAY...AND COOLER TEMPERATURES. WE MAY EVEN SEE SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES OVER THE WEEKEND! MARINE...NO FLAGS. SCA EXPECTED FOLLOWING FROPA FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. PRELIM NUMS... CRP BB 070/086 056/071 049 002 VCT EB 067/087 052/068 046 0-3 LRD BB 068/088 055/074 047 001 JMC.84.SYN MJG.88.MES .CRP...NONE.
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.