Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2001, 3:57 AM CDT for Aransas County, Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 31, 2001, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2001, 4:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Aransas County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 22 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.
783 WUUS54 KCRP 310857 SVRCRP TXC007-355-409-310940- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 357 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ARANSAS COUNTY IN TEXAS NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 440 AM CDT * AT 357 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A MATHIS TO BISHOP LINE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CORPUS CHRISTI BY 415 AM CDT... ODEM BY 420 AM CDT... PADRE ISLAND BY 440 AM CDT... ROCKPORT BY 440 AM CDT... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUIDLING UNTIL THIS LINE OF STORMS PASSES. LAT...LON 2810 9776 2765 9774 2755 9725 2802 9692
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 Aug 31, 3:00 AM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 3:00 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 300 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 NOT MUCH TIME THIS MORNING AS MAJOR FLOOD/RIVER FLOOD EVENT CONTINUES ACROSS MAJORITY OF THE CWFA THIS MORNING. AS S/W CONTS TO SWING EWRD THIS MORNING LRG AREA OF CONVECTION WILL ADVANCE TOWARDS THE COAST. RAINFALL FROM THURSDAY NIGHT WAS 8-10 INCHES IN MANY NORTHERN AREAS AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR TODAY..MAINLY EASTERN SECT THIS MORNING THEN LATER THIS AFTERNOON OUT WEST. ALREADY SEEING ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS WRN TX WITH ANOTHER S/W DROPPING SE. PWATS AT 2.50+ FROM 00Z SOUNDING AND FCST TO REMAIN ABOVE 2 INCHES INTO SATURDAY THEN A SLOW DECREASE. WITH LLJ AND UPPER TROF FCST TO BE A PLAYER THROUGH TONIGHT WILL CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT. UPPER LEVEL DIFLUENCE AND GOOD MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL ALSO AID IN PRODUCTION OF RAINFALL. CONVECTION HEADING EAST THIS MORNING NOW SHOWING SIGNS OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH BOW FEATURE NOTED IN REFLECTIVITY DATA. DEWPTS AHEAD OF THIS LINE REMAIN IN THE UPPER 70S TO NEAR 80 THIS MORNING. TEMPS CONT TO BE HELD DOWN..DUE TO CLOUDS AND PCPN. THIS TREND WILL CONT. WINDS REMAIN SELY. MARINE...PRESS GRADIENT/LLJ STRONGER THIS MORNING THAN EXPECTED. WILL BUMP WINDS UP A NOTCH TO SCEC BAYS...SCA WATERS. LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APCHG THE COAST WILL EXIT BY MID MORNING LEAVING SUBSIDENCE IN ITS WAKE DURING THE AFTN. NXT S/W WILL MOVE IN LATER THIS AFTN WITH PRECIP CONFINED MAINLY OVER LAND AND THE BAYS. GIVEN CURRENT CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERE WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. .CRP...FFA THROUGH FRIDAY TXZ229>234...TXZ239>247 GMZ250-255-270-275...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. CRP TB 088/076 091/076 090 744 VCT TB 084/074 089/075 091 845 LRD EB 090/077 095/076 094 544 MSL..73 / KEG..70 / MB..80 / JM..75
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 30, 11:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 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, 3 hours 41 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
JMLocal storm report, Aug 31, 3:05 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
305 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0257 AM ALICE TX 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/31/01 JIM WELLS
0300 AM 5 N VICTORIA TX FLOOD
08/31/01 VICTORIA SPRING CREEK FLOWING 2
FEET OVER OLIVAR ROADThe 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, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 67 min |
| Aug 31, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 117 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.