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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2003, 5:12 PM CDT for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 3, 2003, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Jun 3, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 225 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 SHORT-TERM(TONIGHT THRU 12Z THU)...COULD SEE SIMILAR REPEAT THIS EVENING AS PREVIOUS EVENING. CONVECTION N OF SAT IS MOVG SLOWLY SE WITH A NW FLOW ALOFT. ATMOS IS UNSTABLE WITH SMALL CAP THAT COULD EASILY BE BROKEN. MSAS ANALYSIS INDICATES GOOD SFC FORCING ALONG WITH DEWPTS IN THE UPPER 70S. CONVECTION COULD ACTUALLY MAKE IT TO THE COAST LATER THIS EVENING. AS FOR WED...MORNING SHRAS MOVG N IN SLY LOW LEV FLOW WILL AFFECT WATERS AND COASTAL COUNTIES. BY AFTERNOON...ANOTHER S/WV TREKS SE IN NW FLOW ALOFT...WITH SEABREEZE BEING A FOCUS AS IT MOVES INLAND. FOR NOW HAVE LEFT LOW POPS FOR WED INTO WED NITE. WILL CONT WITH SLGHTLY ABV CLIMO FOR TEMPS. ONSHORE WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW SCA CRITERIA. LONG-TERM (THU THRU TUE)...CHALLENGING FORECAST IN THE EXTENDED PERIODS AS MODELS ARE IN DISAGREEMENT IN HANDLING THE HIGH PWAT AIR CURRENTLY OVR THE GOMEX NR THE BAY OF CAMPECHE. THE GFS REMAINS FAIRLY CONSISTENT SHOWING PWATS INCREASING TO WELL OVR 2 INCHES BY FRI MORNING AS DEEP SRLY FLOW DRAWS THE MOISTURE NORTH. ON THE OTHER HAND THE THE ETA BRINGS A H7 TROF FURTHER EAST SHUNTING THE BULK OF THE MOISTURE TOWARDS THE NRN AND NERN GULF COAST AS A MORE NWRLY FLOW DEVELOPS IN THE MID LVLS. WILL CONTINUE TO LEAN TOWARDS THE GFS SOLN WRT MOISTURE AS IT SEEMS A BIT MORE REALISTIC AT H7 AND IS FURTHER SUPPORTED BY THE UKMET. BOTH MODELS SHOW A S/WV WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF THE AREA FRI PULLING A COLD FRONT FURTHER SOUTH TOWARDS THE NRN CWA FRI. IN ADDITION...S TX WILL BE IN THE LFQ OF A WEAK UPR JET STREAK PUNCHING ACROSS NRN MX LATE FRI INTO SAT. THAT ALL BEING SAID IT STILL APPEARS CHC POPS ARE IN ORDER THU THRU SAT...FAVORING FRI AS THE BEST CHC FOR RAIN. GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTIES WILL NOT EXCEED 40 PERCENT FOR NOW. ONE LAST NOTE WORTH MENTIONING...THE GFS IS INCREASING THE WINDS ABOVE SCA CRITERIA ON FRI...BUT THIS SEEMS TO AT LEAST PARTLY DUE TO SOME CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK ACROSS CEN TEXAS FRI. WILL CONTINUE TO FORECAST WINDS SOMEWHAT BETWEEN THE GFS AND ETA PROGS. CRP EB 077/092 077/091 077 31223 VCT EB 074/093 075/091 074 42232 LRD EB 077/099 077/099 076 22233 .CRP...NONE. 81/TE (SHORT-TERM) 88/MJG (LONG-TERM)
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>244-246-247-040915- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 410 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HILL COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH AND INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS...COASTAL BEND AND CROSS ROADS AREAS BETWEEN 5 PM AND 6 PM. THEN CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS ARE STRONG WITH SOME POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS. STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY HIGH HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE ANTICIPATED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AND WESTERN COASTAL BEND. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED AREAWIDE FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY WIND...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED DURING THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
0329 PM CDT TUE JUN 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0955 PM LAREDO TX 100 MPH WIND GUST
06/02/03 WEBB 100 MPH WIND GUST
PRELIMINARY REPORT FROM THE
NWS STORM SURVEY TEAM
INDICATES STRAIGHT LINE
WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED FROM
AN HP SUPERCELL THAT SWEPT
ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS
OF THE CITY OF LAREDO. THE
NWS SURVEY TEAM ESTIMATED
WINDS TO BE AT 90 TO 100
MPH BASED ON THE DAMAGE.
THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS OF
TORNADO DAMAGE. THE DAMAGE
PATH IS APPROXIMATELY 10
MILES LONG AND 3 MILES
WIDE...BEGINNING IN THE
NORTH CENTRAL PARTS OF THE
CITY AND EXTENDING TO THE
SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE CITY
NEAR LOOP 20 AND DEL MAR.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
OCCURRED IN THE SOUTHEAST
SIDE OF THE CITY. SEVERAL
MEDIUM SIZED HANGERS AT THE
LAREDO INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT WERE DEMOLISHED
WITH PLANES INSIDE. SEVERAL
MOBILE HOME PARKS WERE
DEMOLISHED. DAMAGE ALSO
OCCURRED AT THE NEW
UNIVISION TELEVISION
STATION. ADDITIONAL DETAILS
WILL BE PROVIDED ONCE THE
STORM SURVEY IS COMPLETE.
JMLocal storm report, Jun 3, 3:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
0329 PM CDT TUE JUN 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0955 PM LAREDO TX 100 MPH WIND GUST
06/02/03 WEBB PRELIMINARY REPORT FROM THE
NWS STORM SURVEY TEAM
INDICATES STRAIGHT LINE
WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED FROM
AN HP SUPERCELL THAT SWEPT
ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS
OF THE CITY OF LAREDO. THE
NWS SURVEY TEAM ESTIMATED
WINDS TO BE AT 90 TO 100
MPH BASED ON THE DAMAGE.
THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS OF
TORNADO DAMAGE. THE DAMAGE
PATH IS APPROXIMATELY 10
MILES LONG AND 3 MILES
WIDE...BEGINNING IN THE
NORTH CENTRAL PARTS OF THE
CITY AND EXTENDING TO THE
SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE CITY
NEAR LOOP 20 AND DEL MAR.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
OCCURRED IN THE SOUTHEAST
SIDE OF THE CITY. SEVERAL
MEDIUM SIZED HANGERS AT THE
LAREDO INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT WERE DEMOLISHED
WITH PLANES INSIDE. SEVERAL
MOBILE HOME PARKS WERE
DEMOLISHED. DAMAGE ALSO
OCCURRED AT THE NEW
UNIVISION TELEVISION
STATION. ADDITIONAL DETAILS
WILL BE PROVIDED ONCE THE
STORM SURVEY IS COMPLETE.
JMSpecial weather statement, Jun 3, 4:14 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ229>233-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 414 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTH TEXAS... A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM PEARSALL TO PLEASANTON TO STOCKDALE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ON THIS TRACK THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO LASALLE...MCMULLEN... LIVE OAK...BEE AND GOLIAD COUNTIES BY 5PM. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH TEXAS FROM COTULLA TO TILDEN TO BEEVILLE AND GOLIAD SHOULD PREPARE TO MOVE INDOORS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JM
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:51 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
TXZ229>232-239>244-040300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 451 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH VALID UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BEE...DUVAL...JIM WELLS...KLEBERG...LA SALLE...LIVE OAK...MCMULLEN...NUECES...SAN PATRICIO AND WEBB. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE ALICE...ARANSAS PASS...BEEVILLE...BENAVIDES...CORPUS CHRISTI...COTULLA...ENCINAL...GEORGE WEST...INGLESIDE...KINGSVILLE... LAREDO...MATHIS...PORT ARANSAS...PORTLAND...ROBSTOWN...SINTON... SKIDMORE...THREE RIVERS AND TILDEN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AND COASTAL BEND BETWEEN 5 PM AND 6 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTH AROUND 25 MPH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF A DIME OR LARGER...STRONG WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AND EVEN TORNADOES. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA...THEN MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LAY FLAT DOWN ON THE GROUND...PREFERABLY IN A DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN SEVERE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS REGARDING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. TE FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/CRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Webb | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 57 min |
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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.