Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 2001, 1:37 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 2 reports 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
- Nov 14, 2001, 1:37 PM CST (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2001, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jim Wells County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 1:46 PM CST | Hail 1 | Alice, TX | |
| Nov 14, 1:53 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1072 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
062 WUUS54 KCRP 141937 SVRCRP TXC249-142030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 137 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 230 PM CST * AT 133 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BEN BOLT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF ALICE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER ALICE AROUND 150 PM CST... 4 MILES WEST OF LAKE ALICE AROUND 200 PM CST... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 2761 9817 2763 9795 2804 9794 2803 9824
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 Nov 14, 9:30 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 9:30 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 930 AM CST WED NOV 14 2001 UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CURRENTLY SWINGING THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY AND WILL MOVE JUST NORTH OF THE AREA TODAY. MORNING SOUNDING...WITH PWATS OF 1.16 AND NO LOW LEVEL SOUTHWEST WIND COMPONENT...INDICATES ATMOSPHERE COULD PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AS THE AXIS OF THE DISTURBANCE CROSSES THE AREA. ALL ASPECTS OF THE FORECAST LOOK GOOD...AND WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO THE FORECAST. MARINE...NO CHANGES. JMC.84.SYN DW.87.MES .CRP...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 41 min |
| Nov 14, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, San Patricio | 41 min |
| Nov 14, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 23 min |
| Nov 14, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 115 min |
| Nov 14, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 56 min |
| Nov 14, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 44 min |
| Nov 14, 5:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Nov 14, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 47 min |
| Nov 14, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 58 min |
| Nov 14, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 3 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.