Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2000, 12:48 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2000, 12:48 PM CST (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2000, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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, 1:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Premont, 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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.
677 WUUS54 KCRP 141848 SVRCRP TXC249-141930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1248 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 130 PM CST * AT 1247 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF PREMONT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 10 MILES NORTH OF PREMONT AROUND 105 PM CST... 7 MILES SOUTH OF BEN BOLT AROUND 125 PM CST... 15 MILES SOUTH OF ALICE AROUND 130 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.
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, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 9:45 AM CST, 3 hours 3 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, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 66 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 |
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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.