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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 15, 2001Jim Wells County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 2001, 8:37 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 15, 2001, 8:37 PM CST (02:37 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2001, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Jim Wells County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 15, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2644 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.0
Supercell composite: 15.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 15, 5:25 PM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 5:25 PM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
525 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

NEW TORNADO WATCH COMING OUT WILL INCLUDE ALL BUT WEBB COUNTY...IN
EFFECT UNTIL 11PM.  STRONG VERT SHEAR CONTINUES.  GOT A LONG LIVED
TORNADIC SUPERCELL THAT HAS TRACKED FROM LIVE OAK COUNTY TO THE
GOLIAD COUNTY LINE. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN THE WARM
SECTOR ACROSS DUVAL COUNTY MAY QUICKLY GO SEVERE.  ZONE UPDATES
COMING SOON

75

.CRP...FFA AND TORNADO WATCH TXZ229>234-240>247.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 15, 6:30 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
630 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    PETTUS                    TX   0.25 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   BEE                            SHERIFF OFFICE REPORT.

LAMARRE

Local storm report, Nov 15, 6:50 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
650 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0645 PM    MINERAL                   TX   FLOODING
11/15/01   BEE                            ALL ROADS CLOSED WITH
                                          HIGH WATER RESCUE
                                          OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS
                                          BY VOLUNTEER FIRE
                                          DEPARTMENT.

LAMARRE

Local storm report, Nov 15, 7:13 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
713 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    5 SE CHARCO               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   GOLIAD                         SHERIFF REPORT.

Local storm report, Nov 15, 8:04 PM CST, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
804 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    PETTUS                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   BEE                            SHERIFF REPORT.

BML

Local storm report, Nov 15, 8:14 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
815PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0800 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   GOLIAD                         SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   TORNADO
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT OF
                                          TORNADO ON THE GROUND
                                          ALONG THE WEST SIDE
                                          OF HIGHWAY 183.

LAMARRE

Local storm report, Nov 15, 8:15 PM CST, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
815 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0800 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   GOLIAD                         SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT.

0810 PM    GOLIAD                    TX   TORNADO
11/15/01   5 S GOLIAD                     SHERIFF REPORT OF
                                          TORNADO ON THE GROUND
                                          ALONG THE WEST SIDE
                                          OF HIGHWAY 183.

LAMARRE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee	48 min
Nov 15, 6:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee	3 hr
Nov 15, 6:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Goliad	42 min
Nov 15, 7:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Goliad	45 min
Nov 15, 7:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	52 min
Nov 15, 7:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad	46 min
Nov 15, 8:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Goliad	49 min
Nov 15, 8:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad	3 hr
Nov 15, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	51 min
Nov 15, 9:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee	4 hr
Nov 15, 9:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	58 min
Nov 15, 10:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	3 hr
Nov 15, 11:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad	106 min
Nov 15, 11:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Refugio	67 min
Nov 16, 12:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee, Refugio, San Patricio	3 hr
Nov 16, 1:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval	55 min
Nov 16, 1:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Duval	37 min
Nov 16, 2:06 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval, Live Oak	3 hr
Nov 16, 3:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun	3 hr
Nov 16, 3:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	3 hr
Nov 16, 4:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee, San Patricio	3 hr
Nov 16, 5:50 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	3 hr
Nov 16, 6:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval, Webb	3 hr
Nov 16, 6:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	3 hr
Nov 16, 6:50 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	San Patricio	3 hr
Nov 16, 8:19 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		116 min
Nov 16, 8:19 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		116 min
Nov 16, 8:57 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg	2 hr
Nov 16, 9:45 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr
Nov 16, 9:45 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr
Nov 16, 1:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	88 min
Nov 16, 1:18 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		57 min
Nov 16, 1:18 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		57 min
Nov 16, 2:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg	92 min
Nov 16, 2:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	75 min
Nov 16, 3:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	2 hr
Nov 16, 4:12 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		108 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.