Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2001, 10:29 PM CST for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 27, 2001, 10:29 PM CST (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2001, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 280431 SVRCRP TXC175-280515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1029 PM CST TUE MAR 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1115 PM CST * AT 1025 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF BERCLAIR...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF WOODSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... THIS STORM WILL PAS NEAR OR JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF GOLIAD AROUND 1050 PM. LAT...LON 2851 9756 2838 9741 2874 9693 2894 9715 $$ GW
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 27, 9:33 PM CST, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 9:33 PM CST, 56 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 933 PM CST TUE MAR 27 2001 FRONT CONTINUES TO SLOWLY SEEP SOUTHWARD HAVING PASSED CRP AREA IN THE LAST HOUR OR TWO. NEW GUIDANCE WILL NOT BE MUCH HELP WITH SURFACE FEATURES TONIGHT. DO NOT EXPECT FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO MOVE NORTH TONIGHT...AND HAVE LEFT THE 2ND PERIOD ALONE FOR NOW. PROBABLE LULL IN ACTION HERE UNTIL NEX SHORTWAVE AND UPPER JET MOVE ACROSS TOWARD MORNING. WILL KEEP POPS AS-IS SINCE EXPECT SOME PRECIP BY THE END OF THE FIRST PERIOD. SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS TO MARINE FORECAST. ALTHOUGH TCOON DATA NOT SHOWING MUCH WITH RESPECT TO WIND...EXPECT WINDS TO PICK UP SOME AS BOUNDARY MOVES SOUTH AND IS REPLACED BY STRONGER GRADIENT. .CRP...SCA GMZ250-255-270-275. 86/GW...91/BSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 10:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 58 min |
| Mar 28, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 58 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.