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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 2001, 1:49 PM CST for McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
- Nov 14, 2001, 1:49 PM CST (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2001, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McMullen County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
232 WUUS54 KCRP 141950 SVRCRP TXC311-142030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 149 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MCMULLEN COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 230 PM CST * AT 144 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF TILDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER CROSS AROUND 210 PM CST... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 2852 9882 2828 9864 2855 9834 2878 9850
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 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 9:30 AM CST, 4 hours 19 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, 1:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 53 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 |
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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.