Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 7:30 PM CST for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 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, 7:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Mirando City, 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
750 WUUS54 KCRP 100131 COR SVRCRP TXC479-100200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED UGC EXPIRATION TIME SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 730 PM CST THU MAR 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN WEBB COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 730 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIRANDO CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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 2751 9922 2730 9920 2729 9882 2768 9893
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, 6:50 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 6:50 PM CST, 40 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 650 PM CST THU MAR 9 2000 ** EARLIER..HAVE UPDATED ZONES ACROSS THE SWRN CWA TO REFLECT ISOLATED SUPERCELL WHICH HAS SHOWN CYCLIC UPDRAFT/DOWNDRAFT CHARACTERISTICS SINCE PUSHING EASTWARD ABOUT 10 MILES N OF LRD AND IS NOW RIGHT-TURNING TOWARD SE WEBB WHERE SVR REMAINS IN EFFECT. LSRCRP HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SEVERE HAIL AND WIND REPORTS ALONG THE PATH OF THE STORM SINCE 544 PM. PULSING CONTINUES TO OCCUR WITH STORM..AND ANTICIPATE THE CELL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND SEVERE WIND CLOSE TO 70 MPH ACROSS SERN WEBB BEFORE EXITING THE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. BML.76 ** .CRP...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 9, 5:59 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
559 PM CST THU MAR 09 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION..A..
0544 PM 15 N LAREDO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/09/00 WEBB REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Mar 9, 6:42 PM CST, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
642 PM CST THU MAR 09 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM 15 E LAREDO TX 1 INCH HAIL
03/09/00 WEBB REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0630 PM LAREDO TX 65 MPH TSTM GUST
03/09/00 WEBBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 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.