Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Webb County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 3675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
821 WUUS54 KCRP 060533 SVRCRP TXC479-060600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1230 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1230 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 34 MILES WEST OF LAS TIENDAS...OR ABOUT 47 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAREDO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR SAFER SHELTER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE CORPUS CHRISTI. LAT...LON 2776 10045 2752 9995 2795 9955 2807 10019
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 May 5, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 920 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000 NO NEED TO MAKE CHANGES AT THIS TIME. UPDATE MAY BE ISSUED LATE TO CLEAN UP ZONES ONCE WINDS DIE DOWN AND AND CLOUDS BECOME MORE SUBSTANTIAL. WILL KEEP AN EYE ON THE CONVECTION WEST OF EAGLE PASS AS IT CONTINUES TO THE SOUTHEAST. LOW POPS MAY BE NEEDED WEST AS THIS CONVECTION EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE MORE HOURS AS IT FOLLOWS MID LEVEL THICKNESS PATTERN AND CONVERGENCE AREA. HOWEVER...CONVECTION MAY STAY FAR ENOUGH WEST TO KEEP POPS OUT. MARINE GROUPS LOOK GOOD...SO DON'T EXPECT CHANGES THERE EITHER. .CRP...SCA GMZ230-GMZ235-GMZ250-GMZ255-GMZ270-GMZ275 86/GW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 10:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
TXZ229-239-060430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1032 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN WEBB COUNTY... AT 1030 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHWESTERN WEBB COUNTY FROM MEXICO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS 50 MPH OR MORE AS THEY MOVE INTO WEBB COUNTY...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES TOWARD YOUR AREA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR 5THE THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.