Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 23, 2000, 9:16 PM CST for La Salle County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- Nov 23, 2000, 9:16 PM CST (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2000, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County La Salle County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 931 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
273 WUUS54 KCRP 240316 SVRCRP TXC283-240415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 916 PM CST THU NOV 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LA SALLE COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CST * AT 913 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF MILLET...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF COTULLA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTH OF MILLET AROUND 935 PM CST... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LAT...LON 2868 9959 2850 9956 2861 9878 2884 9882
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 Nov 23, 8:52 PM CST, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 8:52 PM CST, 24 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 852 PM CST THU NOV 23 2000 STRONG UPPER AND SURFACE FORCING WILL CONTRIBUTE TO CONVECTION OVERNIGHT...WITH HIGHEST POPS NORTHEAST OWING TO GREATER MSTR. STRONG DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND LOW WET BULB ZERO VALUES SUGGEST SEVERE STORMS. WL EXTEND THE SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE TO INCLUDE BEE...LIVE OAK...MCMULLEN...AND LASALLE COUNTIES. WILL INCREASE POPS OUT WEST. NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. MARINE...SEA HEIGHTS HAVE INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY AT 42019...AS FCSTD. WL MAINTAIN SCA CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT. .CRP...SCA GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275. 87
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 23, 3:34 PM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-240600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 334 PM CST THU NOV 23 2000 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THANKSGIVING EVENING... A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE LOCATED OVER WEST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE ADVANCING EAST TOWARD THE COASTAL BEND TONIGHT. WARM MOIST AIR AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON FRIDAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP NORTH OF A LINE FROM TO ALICE TO ARANSAS PASS AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 37. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT MAINLY NEAR AND TO THE NORTH OF THE VICTORIA AND CROSSROADS AREA. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE WELL OFFSHORE BY LATE FRIDAY MORNING. BEHIND THE FRONT...STRONG NORTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. BY FRIDAY EVENING...THE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH. FAIR...BUT COOL CONDITIONS ARE THEN EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THANKSGIVING WEEKEND. MOTORISTS TRAVELING ACROSS THE REGION...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...SHOULD TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONS AND ALLOW EXTRA DRIVING TIME TO REACH DESTINATIONS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...REDUCE VISIBILITIES AND CAUSING PONDING OF WATER OVER FLATTER TERRAIN...IN ADDITION TO MAKING ROADWAYS SLICK AND DANGEROUS. RESIDENTS AND MARINERS ALIKE...SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO AND PREPARE ACCORDINGLY FOR THESE CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SMART
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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.