Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 2, 2004, 2:03 AM CST for Aransas County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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 2, 2004, 2:03 AM CST (08:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2004, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Aransas 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 795 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
135 WUUS54 KCRP 020803 SVRCRP TXC007-020830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 203 AM CST MON FEB 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ARANSAS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 230 AM CST * AT 156 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOLIDAY BEACH...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCKPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES... LAT...LON 2819 9709 2803 9700 2806 9685 2832 9677 $$
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 1, 9:00 PM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 9:00 PM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 900 PM CST SUN FEB 1 2004 .DISCUSSION...UPPER LV SYSTEM IS WORKING ITS WAY ACRS TX WITH ANOTHER VORT MAX ROTATING AROUND THE BASE OF LOW AND APPROACHING CENTRAL AND S TX. FCSTD SOUNDING INDICATES THAT LOW LEV DRYING WL TAKE PLACE OVRNIGHT WITH INCREASING MID LEV MOISTURE. THIS SOLN LOOKS REASONABLE AS SATELLITE IMAGERY AND OBS ACRS CENT AND NRN TX SHOW MID LEV DECK MVG SE IN WRAP AROUND FLOW. THIS MOISTURE SHOULD SKIRT THE NRN CWA WITH THE SRN CWA PC. A N-S ORIENTED BDRY HAS SHFTD SLIGHTLY W AND IS CRNTLY BETWEEN ALI AND FREER AND EXTENDS TO TILDEN. AGREE WITH PREVIOUS SHIFT THAT FOG WL BE A FACTOR FOR AREAS E OF THIS BDRY UNTIL CF MVS THRU TWD SUNRISE...ESPECIALLY SE CWA WHERE THERE ARE LESS CLDS. MSAS ANALYSIS INDICATED PRES RISES ACRS NWRN TX...WITH CF ON THE MV TO THE S AND SE. WL CONT WITH MENTION OF AREAS OF FOG FOR ERN CWA...WITH SOME AREAS BECMG DENSE AT TIMES. DO NOT EXPECT DENSE FOG TO BE WIDESPREAD OR LAST LONG ENOUGH TO GO WITH A DENSE FOG ADVISORY ATTM. RADAR SHOWING RESIDUAL WK ECHOES OVR NE CWA...WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT THE REGION BY MIDNIGHT. TONIGHTS MIN TEMP FCST IS A BIT TRICKY DUE TO TIMING OF CF/CAA. IF CF IS LATE BY AN HOUR OR TWO THEN FCSTD LOWS WILL BE TOO COLD. FOR NOW TIMING OF CF LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK AND WL LEAVE LOW TEMPS AS IS FOR NOW. FCSTD GRIDS LOOK ON TRACK...EXCEPT FOR SKY WHERE WL INCREASE CLD CVR THRU TONIGHT...MAINLY NE CWA. WL UPDATE ZONES TO RMV EVENING WORDING/POPS AND ADJUST SKY CVR. && PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 49 65 43 64 54 / 10 00 00 00 60 VICTORIA 46 63 38 60 49 / 20 00 00 00 60 LAREDO 48 68 45 66 53 / 00 00 00 00 40 && .CRP...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 81/SHORT-TERM
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 1, 6:00 AM CST, 20 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 600 AM CST SUN FEB 1 2004 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-021200- ARANSAS-BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR-BEE-CALHOUN- COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- DUVAL-GOLIAD-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-LASALLE-LIVE OAK-MCMULLEN-NUECES- REFUGIO-SAN PATRICIO-VICTORIA- WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM-WEBB- 600 AM CST SUN FEB 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE NORTHERN COASTAL BEND THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. AT THIS TIME THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA EARLY MONDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED OFFSHORE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH TEXAS ON THURSDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL BE SEEN AGAIN ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TR/JD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2:22 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 53 min |
Nearby
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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.