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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 14, 2000Kleberg County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2000, 2:48 PM CST for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2000, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Kleberg County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

035 
WUUS54 KCRP 142053
SVRCRP
TXC273-142115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
248 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 246 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF NATIONAL SEASHORE TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NATIONAL SEASHORE TO  
  32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NATIONAL SEASHORE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS LINE OF STORMS. 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, 2:00 PM CST, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 2:00 PM CST, 48 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
200 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000

WILL KEEP SHORT...BUSY WITH HEAVY RAIN.  FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN
ISSUED FOR ENTIRE CWFA DUE TO CONTINUED VERY HEAVY RAIN ESPECIALLY
IN COASTAL COUNTIES.  AMOUNTS OVER 10 INCHES ARE STARTING TO BECOME
COMMON PLACE OVER EASTERN CWFA. WILL CONTINUE WITH CATEGORICAL POPS
TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.  ANOTHER SHORT WAVE TROUGH ALONG WITH
FAVORABLE DIVERGENCE FIELDS FROM UPPER LEVEL JET WILL KEEP SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS GOING.  SHOULD BE BREAK IN PRECIPIATION STARTING
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.  TSRA/SHRA WILL AGAIN BE NEEDED ON THURSDAY FOR
COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH LATE IN DAY.

EXTENDED...WITH SOILS NOW MOIST...AND MRF HINTING AT FAIRLY ABUNDANT
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...MAY BE TOUGH TO GET RID OF CLOUDS.
HOWEVER...EXPECT SOME DRYING BEHIND FRONT BEFORE THINGS CLOUD OVER
AGAIN.  TEMPS SHOULD CONTINUE BELOW NORMAL.

MARINE...SCEC CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL IN MARINE FCST.  WILL CARRY
WINDS AND SEAS HIGHER DURING TSRA AND MAY NEED GUSTS TO GALE FORCE.

CRP TE 060/073 063/075 055 ++3
VCT TE 059/071 062/074 049 ++3
LRD TE 059/073 061/078 052 ++3

.CRP...FFA ALL ZONES THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING (151800).

78/93

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 14, 1:50 PM CST, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
150 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1230 PM    BAYSIDE                   TX   FLOOD
03/14/00   REFUGIO                        8 INCHES OF RAIN.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0100 PM    16 N THREE RIVERS         TX   FLOOD
03/14/00   LIVE OAK                       5 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN.
                                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0120 PM    ALICE                     TX   FLOOD
03/14/00   JIM WELLS                      SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED
                                          DUE TO FLOODING.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0120 PM    SINTON                    TX   FLOOD
03/14/00   SAN PATRICIO                   SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED
                                          DUE TO FLOODING.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0123 PM    ARANSAS PASS              TX   70 MPH TSTM GUST
03/14/00   SAN PATRICIO                   TRAILER HOMES DAMAGED.
                                          POSSIBLE TORNADO.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0135 PM    5 NW ROCKPORT             TX   FLOOD
03/14/00   ARANSAS                        4 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN.
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Mar 14, 2:40 PM CST, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
240 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0202 PM    ROCKPORT                  TX   65 MPH TSTM GUST
03/14/00   ARANSAS                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0202 PM    ROCKPORT                  TX   FLOOD
03/14/00   ARANSAS                        STREETS CLOSED TO DUE
                                          HEAVY RAIN.

0202 PM    CORPUS CHRISTI            TX   FLOOD
03/14/00   NUECES                         SEVERAL DOWNTOWN
                          ?                STREETS FLOODED.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

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, 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.