Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2000, 1:45 PM CST for Aransas County, San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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, 1:45 PM CST (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2000, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Aransas County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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, 2:02 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Rockport, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 32 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.
521 WUUS54 KCRP 141949 SVRCRP TXC007-409-142030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 145 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ARANSAS COUNTY IN TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 230 PM CST * AT 142 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF HOLIDAY BEACH TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF INGLESIDE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INGLESIDE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF HOLIDAY BEACH TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF INGLESIDE TO 3 MILES NORTH OF CORPUS CHRISTI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE CORPUS CHRISTI. $$ 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, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 9:45 AM CST, 4 hours 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, 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.