Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 2001, 5:54 PM CST for Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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
- Dec 1, 2001, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 1, 2001, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 1, 5:30 PM CST, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 5:30 PM CST, 24 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 530 PM CST SAT DEC 1 2001 RADAR AND OBSERVATION TRENDS SHOW A NEED TO UPDATE RAIN CHANCES FOR TNGT. SFC TROF CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN ACROSS WRN COASTAL BEND AND VALLEY REGION FROM ALI-BRO...WITH STRENGTHENING LOW LVL JET AND S/W APCHG FROM CENTRAL OLD MX. SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IS VERY STRONG WITH LIGHT NW WINDS AT LRD AND 21G25KT EASTERLY WINDS AT BUOY 42020. WINDS ARE CONVECTIVE DRIVEN AT THE PRESENT TIME...BUT MAY CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS THEREFORE MAY NEED TO UPDATE CWF AS WELL. PWAT VALUES ARE INCREASING AND ARE PROGGED AT 1.75 INCHES BY 00Z THIS EVENING. SPENES MESSAGE NOTED 2.00 PWATS FROM SATELLITE SOUTH OF BRO. RADAR ESTIMATES HAVE BENERALLY BEEN IN THE 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH RANGE...BUT THE CELLS MOVING NORTH ACROSS KENEDY AND BROOKS COUNTIES ARE INDICATING MUCH HIGHER AMOUNTS. THEREFORE WILL INCLUDE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE ZONE UPDATE. ALSO JUST RECEIVED A REPORT OF 1/2 INCH HAIL WITH THAT STORM MOVING WEST OF SINTON. THIS IS NOT QUITE SEVERE BUT WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR. PRELIMS FOLLOW... CRP CC 063/069 066/074 067 642 VCT CC 059/067 062/071 063 532 LRD CC 059/065 061/072 065 442 JM..75 / WC..87 .CRP...NONE.
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.