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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 25, 2001Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 4:03 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
Jun 25, 2001, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 25, 4:13 PM CDTHail 0.88Alice, TX

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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3039 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

392 
WUUS54 KCRP 252105
SVRCRP
TXC249-273-355-252200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
403 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  NORTHWESTERN KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS
  SOUTHWESTERN NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 359 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF BEN BOLT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF KINGSVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEN BOLT AROUND 415 PM CDT...
  OVER ALICE AROUND 430 PM CDT...
  OVER LAKE ALICE AROUND 440 PM CDT...

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

$$

LAT...LON 2751 9801 2759 9783 2792 9798 2781 9822

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 25, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
230 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2001

SYN..H5 LOW CURRENTLY CENTERED OVER THE APPALACHIANS WILL CONT TO
MOVE SLOWLY W THRU THIS FCST PERIOD AND INTO THE EXTENDED.  H5 RIDGE
OVER THE SWRN U.S. WILL BUILD OVER THE 4-CORNERS REGION AND PLACE
THE CWFA UNDER A N/NW FLOW.  ONCE THE UPPER LVL LOW RETROGRADES W..
IT WILL OPEN INTO A TROF THAT EXTENDS SWRD INTO TX.  THIS WILL SHIFT
THE UPPER LVL FLOW TO A MORE N/NELY.

DISC..AFTER A MORNING OF ISOLATED HVY RAINFALL..CRP RECEIVED 1.92
INCHES...A RECORD RAINFALL FOR THE DATE..PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 1.03 IN
1996..SEA BREEZE HAS SHIFTED MOST OF THE PCPN INLAND.  ISOLATED TO
WIDELY SCT CONVECTION WILL CONT THRU THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE
EVENING UNTIL SUNSET..ESPECIALLY ALONG THE SEA BREEZE.  BOUNDARY
FROM OFFSHORE OF PTA TO NRN SAN PATRICIO COUNTY THEN INTO BEE COUNTY
MAY ACT AS A FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE REMAINDER
OF THE AFTERNOON TOO.  WINDS BEGIN TO INCREASE IN RESPONSE TO
INCREASING PGF.  STRONGEST WINDS LIKELY ON WED.  THIS MAY INHIBIT
FORMATION OF CONVECTION..BUT STILL ENOUGH TO MENTION POPS.  WITH
NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES AND ANOTHER BOUNDARY HEADED N OVER THE WRN
GULF..FROM CONVECTION WILL GO WITH WIDELY SCT TO SCT POPS FOR TUE.
TEMPS WILL BEGIN A SLOW RISE DURING THE OVERNIGHT PERIODS BECAUSE OF
MORE WIND.  AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL BE HELD IN CHECK BY CONVECTION AND
LEFT OVER CONVECTIVE DEBRIS.

EXTENDED..MODELS CONT THE TREND OF H5 LOW RETROGRADING INTO NEXT
WEEKEND.  SPOKES OF ENERGY ROTATING AROUND THE UPPER LVL LOW WILL
ALLOW FOR CONVECTION TO FORM AND MOVE S.  WILL SEE SEASONAL TEMPS
WITH CHCS FOR ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL.

MARINE...PRESS TO THE WEST PROGD TO GRADUALLY DEEPEN NEXT COUPLE OF
DAYS. OVER THE BAYS...BORDERLINE SCA CONDITIONS EXPECTED TUE THRU
THU...WITH SLIGHTLY STRONGER WINDS WED. MODELS KEEP WINDS OVER THE
COASTAL WATERS IN THE SCEC RANGE. NOCTURNAL LLJ...WEAK COASTAL TROF
DEVELOPMENT AT NIGHT AND MOIST CONVERGENCE ALONG THE COAST...WILL
PRODUCE ISOL/WIDELY SCT CONVECTION DURING LATE NIGHT AND EARLY
MORNING HOURS THROUGH THU. AS UPPER LOW BECOMES MORE OF A FACTOR BY
FRI...PRECIP CHANCES INCREASE.

PRELIM NUMS..
CRP BB 074/091 074/092 075 1212
VCT BB 071/092 073/092 073 1312
LRD BB 075/099 075/100 075 2212

MSL..73 / TME..81

.CRP...NONE.

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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.