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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Alice, 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.
- 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
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.