Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT for La Salle County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 14, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County La Salle County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 5337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 150200 SVRCRP TXC283-150240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 900 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LA SALLE COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 940 PM CDT * AT 900 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARTESIA WELLS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COTULLA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... COTULLA AROUND 920 PM CDT... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 2863 9939 2817 9939 2818 9912 2863 9914
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 Jun 14, 2:05 PM CDT, 6 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:05 PM CDT, 6 hours 55 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 205 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 SYN..TROF FROM H7 TO H5 WILL MOVE E ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S. TONIGHT AND INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION ON FRI. THE TROF WILL BECOME NEGATIVELY TILTED AS IT MOVES E. THE SRN EXTENT OF THIS TROF WILL CAUSE SHRA/TSRA ACROSS THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. BY LATE SAT..RIDGING FROM H7 TO H5 WILL RESUME ACROSS THE AREA. DISC..COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON LINED UP FROM CHILDRESS (KCDS) TO SOUTH OF LUBBOCK (KLBB) TO NORTH OF WINK (KINK). DRYLINE OUT AHEAD OF THE ACTUAL FRONT. SIGNIFICANT DEWPOINT PACKING SEEN IN THE MSAS DATA ACROSS THIS AREA. AS TSRA DEVELOP AND MOVE E..BOUNDARIES ARE LIKELY TO SHIFT SWRD AND THIS COULD INITIATE SHRA/TSRA LATE TONIGHT. MAIN THREAT OF PCPN SHD COME ON FRI (ALTHOUGH SLIM ATTM). SHD CONT TO SEE A DECREASE ON THE LOW LVL MOISTURE WHILE MID AND UPPER LVL MOISTURE SHOWS AN INCREASE. LOOKS AS IF SOME LOW LVL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN TRAPPED UNDER THE RIDGE AND WE COULD STILL SEE SLGT CHCS FOR PCPN INTO THE WEEKEND. MID AND UPPER LVL RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD BACK OVER THE REGION SAT INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. TEMPS WILL FALL BACK CLOSER TO NORMAL MID JUNE VALUES WITH WINDS BECMG MORE ERLY AS FRONTS APPROACH FROM THE NORTH AND SFC HIGH SLIDES TOWARDS THE SERN U.S. WITH LESS LOW LVL MOISTURE AND LIGHTER WINDS..MIN TEMPS WILL FALL BACK INTO THE 70S. AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL BE CLOSE TO RECENT VALUES. EXTENDED..NOGAPS/MRF INDICATE A ZONAL FLOW ACROSS MUCH OF THE CONUS MOST OF NEXT WEEK..WITH RIDGE ACROSS THE SRN TIER. AVN/MRF SHOW A DISTURBANCE ROTATING AROUND THE RIDGE AND INTO S TX ON MON WITH A POCKET OF HIGHER PWATS. WILL GO AHEAD AND INCLUDE THE MENTION OF AT LEAST SLGT CHC POPS ON MON. MARINE...WILL MAINTAIN SCA THROUGH THE EVENING FOR THE BAYS AND ALL NIGHT OFFSHORE. WINDS ACROSS THE BAYS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT... FALLING BELOW SCA CRITERIA. LLJ AND HIGH SEAS WILL MAINTAIN SCA CONDITIONS OFFSHORE. THE GRADIENT RELAXES FRI AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES INTO S CENTRAL TX. A WEAK TO MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW CONTINUES THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH WINDS BACKING TO THE E BY SUNDAY AS A SECONDARY SURGE OF HIGH PRESS SLIDES TOWARD THE SE U.S. AGREE WITH PREVIOUS SHIFT THAT AN ISOLATED SHRA POSSIBLE THROUGH SAT...HOWEVER NOT SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO MENTION IN MARINE ZONES. BY SUN...BOUNDARY ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH PRESS FCST TO MOVE INTO NW GULF...WILL BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIP. PRELIMS FOLLOW... CRP 078/091 075/092 072 1211 VCT 076/091 074/092 071 2312 LRD 079/098 076/097 075 1211 MSL..73 / TME..81 .CRP...SCA GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.