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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2001, 2:53 AM CDT for Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- Aug 31, 2001, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 3:57 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 M | Alice Intl Arpt, 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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 3264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
245
WUUS54 KCRP 310756
SVRCRP
TXC249-273-297-355-409-310900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
253 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS
KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS
SOUTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS
NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS
SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 400 AM CDT
* AT 254 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A CLEGG TO ALICE TO BEN BOLT
LINE...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
KINGSVILLE AROUND 315 AM CDT...
CORPUS CHRISTI AROUND 330 AM CDT...
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INSIDE UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES.
LAT...LON 2848 9824 2736 9817 2732 9749 2780 9729
2810 9740 2812 9777 2831 9797What 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 Aug 31, 12:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 12:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1240 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 UPDATED ZFP TO REFLECT EXPANDED FFA AREA TO ENTIRE CWFA. MAJOR FLOOD/RIVER FLOOD EVENT WELL UNDERWAY. RAINFALL TOTALS THURSDAY NIGHT REACHED 8 TO 10 INCHES MAINLY IN NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY. IR SATL SHOWS TOPS CONTINUE TO COOL AS ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY DEVELOPS. KCRP SOUNDING SHOWED PWATS OF 2.6 INCHES. WITH THIS AMOUNT OF MOISTURE...LLJ...AND AN UPPER TROF SWINGING THROUGH... RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MORNING AND FRIDAY. UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE AND STRONG MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL AID IN ADDITIONAL RAINFALL PRODUCTION. .CRP...FFA THROUGH FRIDAY TXZ229>234...TXZ239>247 GMZ250-255-270-275...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. KEG...70 SYN JM...75 MESO
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 30, 11:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1141 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM 5 SE COTULLA TX .88 INCH HAIL
08/30/01 LA SALLE
1000 PM 2N MISSION VALLEY TX FLOOD
08/30/01 VICTORIA FM236 FLOODED NEAR FM237.
CARS STALLED.
1140 PM LAREDO TX FLOOD
08/30/01 WEBB MANY STREETS FLOODED IN
CITY
JMLocal storm report, Aug 31, 12:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR TYPO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1141 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM 5 SE COTULLA TX .88 INCH HAIL
08/30/01 LA SALLE
1000 PM 2N MISSION VALLEY TX FLOOD
08/30/01 VICTORIA FM236 FLOODED NEAR FM237.
CARS STALLED.
1140 PM LAREDO TX FLOOD
08/30/01 WEBB MANY STREETS FLOODED IN
CITY
JMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 12:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 59 min |
| Aug 31, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio | 67 min |
| Aug 31, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 117 min |
| Aug 31, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 4:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 110 min |
| Aug 31, 8:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun | 3 hr |
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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.