Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2001, 10:20 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- May 6, 2001, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Webb County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 2710 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 070321 SVRCRP TXC479-070345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1020 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1016 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAS TIENDAS...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF LAREDO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OPEN COUNTRY IN CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY AROUND 1030 PM CDT... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 2800 9962 2784 9972 2767 9939 2788 9926 $$ COLLINS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Webb | 40 min |
| May 6, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 60 min |
| May 6, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 65 min |
| May 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle | 3 hr |
| May 6, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 60 min |
| May 6, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 33 min |
| May 7, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 59 min |
| May 7, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 60 min |
| May 7, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 34 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.