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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 6, 2003Duval County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 6, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT for Duval County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
Oct 6, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Oct 6, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Duval County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1309 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brownsville Intl, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 6, 2:53 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.