Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2003, 9:32 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2003, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2003, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Webb County, TX
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
960 WUUS54 KCRP 300232 SVRCRP TXC479-300330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 932 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN WEBB COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 932 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF EL CENIZO...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAREDO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 9 MILES SOUTH OF AGUILARES AROUND 1005 PM CDT... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 2786 9951 2733 9961 2730 9882 2775 9887 $$
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 Apr 29, 9:05 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 9:05 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 905 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003 MEXICAN MCS CONTINUES TO HOLD TOGETHER AS IT BEGINS TO AFFECT WESTERN WEBB COUNTY. WV IMAGERY INDICATES A WK S/WV UPSTREAM FROM THIS MCS. THE WELL-DEFINED SUBTROPICAL JET TO THE SOUTH ALONG WITH THIS S/WV WL MAINTAIN DIVERGENCE ALOFT THROUGH AT LEAST THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. HOWEVER...WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING I EXPECT MOST OF THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH IN COVERAGE. MOST OF THE AREA SOUNDINGS DO INDICATE A CAPPING INVERSION AND THIS WL ALSO HELP TO QUIET THINGS DOWN. THE DEEPER MOISTURE THAT LIES ACROSS THE ERN ZONES MAY PRODUCE SOME LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE. NO MAJOR CHANGES TO THE TEMPS OR WINDS ARE EXPECTED. A WK GRADIENT WL KEEP THE WATERS BELOW SCA LVLS. NO FLAGS. MB .CRP...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 6:00 AM CDT, 15 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-301100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 600 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL BRING JUST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO THURSDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WATERS SUNDAY AND MONDAY...AS LOW PRESSURE STRENGTHENS OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS STATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. AP/BB
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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.