Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2000, 12:24 PM CST for Duval County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 14, 2000, 12:24 PM CST (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2000, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Duval County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 12:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Concepcion, TX | |
| Mar 14, 12:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Concepcion, 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
437 WUUS54 KCRP 141825 SVRCRP TXC131-141930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1224 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DUVAL COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 130 PM CST * AT 1222 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF REALITOS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF HEBBRONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR REALITOS AROUND 1215 PM CST... 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENAVIDES AROUND 1255 PM CST... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCEPCION AROUND 100 PM CST... NEAR RIOS AROUND 105 PM CST... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 2745 9863 2731 9848 2731 9825 2787 9825 $$ MJG
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 14, 9:45 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 9:45 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 945 AM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN AREA OF WARM FRONTOGENESIS IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN CWFA. DWPTS BEHIND WARM FRONT HAVE JUMPED TO AROUND 70. THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ESPECIALLY IN EAST AND NORTHEAST PARTS OF CWFA. WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO CURRENT SET OF ZONES...EVERYTHING IS SET TO 100 PERCENT POPS AND LOCALLY NHEAVY RAIN. KCRP WSR-88D PICKS UP BRIEF SPIN-UP MESOS/TVS'S IN GULF WHERE WARM FRONT IS LOCATED. NO CHANGES TO CURRENT MARINE PACKAGE. .CRP...NONE. 78
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 12:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 1:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 45 min |
| Mar 14, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 43 min |
| Mar 14, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 27 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.