Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 11:25 PM CDT for La Salle County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- May 24, 2001, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2001, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County La Salle County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Cotulla, TX | Tree blown over on power line which started fire. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 250426 SVRCRP TXC283-250515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1125 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LA SALLE COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MILLET...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF COTULLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LAT...LON 2858 9939 2831 9936 2836 9884 2863 b9885
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 24, 10:40 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 10:40 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1040 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 ** UPDATED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 286 IN EFFECT FOR THE NWRN PORTION OF THE CWA THROUGH 07Z. COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... LASALLE..MCMULLEN..LIVE OAK..BEE. COUNTIES -NOT- IN THE WATCH ARE... VICTORIA..GOLIAD..SAN PATRICIO.. CALHOUN..REFUGIO. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...00Z CRP SOUNDING PROFILE DEPICTED AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION WITH AN LI OF -10C AND A CAPE OF 4031 J/KG. SFC BOUNDARY EXISTS ALONG A JCT-AUS-CLL-LFK LINE THIS EVENING WITH LITTLE SWD PROGRESSION. CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ALONG THE BOUNDARY WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH BOX 283 TO THE NW AND 285 TO THE N/NE OF THE CWA WHERE MAX INSTABILITY EXISTS. OUTFLOW INFLUENCES IN THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE SFC BOUNDARY WILL INITIATE ADDITIONAL CONVECTION AND CURRENT FCST IS IN AGREEMENT WITH MENTION v OF CONVECTION ACROSS THE N/NERN TIER OF FA. SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH FARTHER SWD TMRW EVE AND WILL ALLOW FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE CWA. BML.76 .CRP...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 11:00 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1100 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH TEXAS... LASALLE...MCMULLEN...LIVE OAK...BEE. A FRONTAL SYSTEM DRAPED ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS WILL COMBINE WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO GENERATE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. THE STORMS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WATCH AREA HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAMARRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.