Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT for Bee County, Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Jul 12, 2003, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
605 WUUS54 KCRP 122055 SVRCRP TXC025-175-122200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 355 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BEE COUNTY IN TEXAS WESTERN GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 355 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CHARCO...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF GOLIAD...MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER PETTUS...5 MILES NORTH OF NORMANNA AROUND 425 PM CDT... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 2862 9747 2879 9755 2859 9794 2837 9767 $$
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 Jul 12, 10:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 10:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1000 AM CDT SAT JUL 12 2003 BASED ON CURRENT MSAS ANALYSIS AND BUOY 002...WILL BACK WINDS TO THE NE OVER OUTER COASTAL WATERS A TAD EARLIER. WILL INDICATE WINDS SHIFTING TO THE NE BY TONIGHT PROGRESSING FROM E TO W...BUT REMAINING IN THE 10 TO 15 KNOT RANGE. WV SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER LEV WEAKNESS DRAPED ALONG THE TX COAST...AHD OF RIDGING. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE IS PRESENT OVR NE CWA ALONG WITH THETA-E RIDGING AND SFC CONVERGENCE TO PRODUCE ISOLATED SHRAS. CURRENT RADAR INDICATES AN ISOLATED SHRA JUST NORTH OF SAN ANTONIO BAY. EXPECT JUST A FEW SHRAS TO CONT IN THAT GENERAL AREA AND NWD TWD VCT THRU THE AFTERNOON. CURRENT FCST SHOWS THIS TREND AND WILL LEAVE AS IS. CRP BB 094/075 094/077 087 -1224 VCT BB 095/074 094/074 089 2-113 LRD BB 102/077 099/077 092 00--1 .CRP...NONE. 81
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 6:00 AM CDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-131100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 600 AM CDT SAT JUL 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HEAT INDICES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 105 TO 110 DEGREES OVER SOUTH TEXAS BETWEEN 2 PM AND 6 PM. RESIDENTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN WHEN OUTDOORS AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER TO AVOID HEAT EXHAUSTION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE LATEST FORECAST FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS FOR CLAUDETTE TO MOVE TOWARD THE NORTHWEST ACROSS THE WEST CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO TODAY...THEN MOVE TOWARD THE WEST. CLAUDETTE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INLAND NEAR BROWNSVILLE TEXAS EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. RAIN CHANCES WILL INCREASE OVER THE AREA BEGINNING SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS CLAUDETTE MOVES INTO THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO. RAINFALL ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY COULD BE HEAVY AND CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. AS THE WINDS INCREASE ON MONDAY...STRONG NORTHEAST TO EAST WINDS COULD PRODUCE COASTAL FLOODING AND VERY HIGH SEAS. RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER ON TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. BB/TR
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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.