Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2003, 7:45 PM CST for Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Feb 15, 2003, 7:45 PM CST (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2003, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
479 WUUS54 KCRP 160145 SVRCRP TXC249-273-355-160245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 745 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS WESTERN KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 740 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISHOP...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINGSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BISHOP AROUND 800 PM CST... OVER KINGSVILLE AROUND 810 PM CST... 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF RICARDO AROUND 825 PM CST... 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF RIVIERA AROUND 845 PM CST... THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... LAT...LON 2780 9784 2754 9823 2715 9820 2734 9754 $$
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 Feb 15, 2:30 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 2:30 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 230 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 SHORT-TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT)...MAIN CONCERN IS LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. AT THIS TIME...WILL LEAVE OUT THE MENTION OF SEVERE BUT IF RADAR TRENDS INDICATE BEFORE ISSUANCE...WILL NOT HESITATE TO DO SO. FRONT SHOULD BE THROUGH INLAND CWFA BY 10 PM AND OFFSHORE WATERS SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT IF NOT BEFORE THEN. SCA WILL BE NEEDED IN WAKE OF FRONT...AND WILL MENTION SHOWERS/THUNDER JUST AHEAD OF IT. NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BESIDES WINDS ON SUNDAY...BEFORE DYING DOWN ON SATURDAY NIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES IN. BREEZY/WINDY AT LEAST EARLY PART OF SUNDAY EASTERN 1/2 BEFORE HIGH STARTS TO SETTLE IN. WILL LEAN MORE TOWARD AVN-MOS TONIGHT THEN DO A BLEND OF MOS GUIDANCE FOR THE LAST TWO PERIODS. LONG-TERM (12Z MON THROUGH SAT)...PLEASANT WX IN STORE FOR MON/TUE AS ZONAL FLOW ALOFT AND SFC HIGH PRES WILL CONT A SUBSIDENT/DRY AIRMASS. THE SFC HIGH WILL SHIFT E THRU TUE ALLOWING AN ONSHORE FLOW TO DVLP...WHICH WILL BRING INCREASING MOISTURE/CLOUDS AND WAA. A COASTAL TROF DVLPS BY TUE NITE/WED. THIS COMBINED WITH INCREASING PWATS...ISENTROPIC LIFT AND AN APPROACHING S/WV WILL PRODUCE PRECIP. AVN SHOWS A MUCH BETTER CHC FOR PRECIP THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. HOWEVER...DUE TO INCONSISTENCY WITH EACH MODEL RUN OF TIMING OF PRECIP AND STRENGTH OF DYNAMICS...WILL KEEP SLGT CHC FOR NOW FOR WED/THU. LATEST GFS SHOWS CLRG BY FRI AFT BEHIND A STRONG CF. HOWEVER...FRI MORN STILL LOOKS TO BE WET SO WILL LEAVE SLGT CHC. COOLER TEMPS EXPECTED FRI NITE/SAT BEHIND CF. PRELIMS...1ST PERIOD POPS SUBJECT TO ADJUSTMENTS CRP BU 045/059 036/064 048 86300 VCT BU 041/057 034/063 043 86300 LRD BU 046/063 039/068 046 86100 .CRP...SCA230-235-250-255-270-275. 86/GW..SHORT-TERM 81/TE..LONG-TERM
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 11:28 AM CST, 8 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1128 AM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...AS THE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES... DAYTIME HEATING CONTINUES...AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM WOULD BE SOUTH AND EAST OF A ROCKPORT TO MATHIS TO FREER LINE...WITH MAINLY SHOWERS NORTH OF THAT AREA. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WHICH FORM LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING AT LEAST SMALL HAIL...IF THE ATMOSPHERE HAS TIME TO RECOVER FROM THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EARLIER THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THIS EVENING AND SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL BE REQUIRED FOR THE WATERS DUE TO THE STRONG NORTH WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY...AS A STRONG OFFSHORE FLOW PREVAILS BEHIND A COLD FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. GW
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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.