Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2001, 10:07 AM CST for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2001, 10:07 AM CST (16:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2001, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 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 28, 11:05 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Three Rivers, TX | Hail fell on Interstate 37. |
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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 281609 SVRCRP TXC297-311-281700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1007 AM CST WED MAR 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS NORTHEASTERN MCMULLEN COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1100 AM CST * AT 1006 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CROSS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF TILDEN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROSS AROUND 1015 AM CST... 8 MILES NORTH OF CALLIHAM AROUND 1035 AM CST... 6 MILES NORTH OF CHOKE CANYON AROUND 1045 AM CST... OVER WHITSETT AROUND 1055 AM CST... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 2854 9872 2841 9857 2839 9798 2875 9812
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 28, 9:30 AM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 9:30 AM CST, 37 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 930 AM CST WED MAR 28 2001 CONVECTION IS REALLY BEGINNING TO FIRE UP ACROSS THE CWFA. THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO THE LFQ OF AN APPROACHING STRONG SUBTROPICAL JET MOVING THROUGH NRN MEXICO AND EXTREME DEEP SOUTH TX. ALSO...WV IMAGERY DEPICTED A WELL-DEFINED VORT MAX TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE BIG BEND RGN. MEANWHILE...THE FNTL BNDRY WAS MOVING EVER SO SLOWLY SEWD THROUGH THE OFFSHORE WATERS. ALL OF THESE FACTORS LEAD TO INCREASING POPS ONCE AGAIN FOR THE ENTIRE CWFA. THE NEXT ISSUE TO DEAL WITH IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SVR STORMS. WBZ HEIGHTS ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY FALL TODAY AS HEIGHTS FALL AND THE COLUMN COOLS. BOTH THE CRP AND DRT SOUNDINGS INDICATED MID LVL DRY AIR WITH DECENT MID LVL LAPSE RATES AS WELL. I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW STORMS TURNING SVR WITH HAIL AND WIND THE MAIN THREATS. WL LKLY ISSUE AN SPS AND MAY ALSO MENTION THIS IN THE ZONES. WL NEED TO REDUCE TEMPS AT LEAST A CATEGORY OR TWO GIVEN THE THICK CLOUDS AND THE COOL AIRMASS CURRENTLY IN PLACE. MARINE...WL GROUP THE NEARSHORE AND OFFSHORE WATERS TOGETHER SINCE THE FNTL BNDRY XHAS ALREADY MADE IT THROUGH THE OFFSHORE WATERS. WL STILL MAINTAIN AN SCA DUE TO HIGH SWELLS. MB .CRP...SCA GMZ270-275.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 9:48 AM CST, 19 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-282300- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 948 AM CST WED MAR 28 2001 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE TODAY... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ALONG WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS TODAY. DUE TO THE COOL AND DRY AIR ALOFT...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END BY THIS EVENING. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA...THEN MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LAY FLAT DOWN ON THE GROUND...PREFERABLY IN A DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN SEVERE WEATHER. MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 46 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 |
Nearby
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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.