Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2001, 10:41 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Texas. It was in force for 19 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
- May 5, 2001, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Calhoun County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1834 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 May 5, 10:15 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 10:15 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1015 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001 EXPECT ADDITIONAL WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP OVER THE CWA ALONG A WEAK E-W ORIENTED SURFACE TROUGH...AS AN UPPER JET STREAK DEVELOPS OVERNIGHT. WL MAKE SOME MINOR TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENTS FOR TONIGHT OWING THE RECENT/EXPECTED DEW POINTS. MARINE...WL MAINTAIN THE SCA OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS AND THE SCEC OVER THE BAYS OWING TO CURRENT/EXPECTED CONDITIONS. .CRP...SCA GMZ250-255-270-275. 87
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 5, 7:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
715 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM 1 W CHARCO TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
05/05/01 GOLIAD REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE
0625 PM 1 SW MC FADDIN 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/01 VICTORIA REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE
0635 PM 4 S VICTORIA 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/01 VICTORIA REPORTED BY LOCAL SPOTTER
COYNEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 49 min |
| May 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio | 46 min |
| May 5, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 39 min |
| May 5, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 33 min |
| May 6, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 53 min |
| May 6, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 54 min |
| May 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 60 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.