Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2001, 11:02 AM CST for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2001, 11:02 AM CST (17:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2001, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 281704 SVRCRP TXC025-175-297-281800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1102 AM CST WED MAR 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEE COUNTY IN TEXAS GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL NOON CST * AT 1100 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF THREE RIVERS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF CHOKE CANYON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM!
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, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 9:30 AM CST, 1 hour 32 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, 1 hour 14 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
Local storm report, Mar 28, 10:55 AM CST, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1055 AM CST WED MAR 28 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0945 AM FOWLERTON TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
03/28/01 LASALLE SHERIFF REPORT OF NICKEL
SIZED HAIL. THE HAIL WAS
REPORTEwD TO BE WET AND
SLUSHY.
LAMARREThe 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, 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 |
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.