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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

January 28, 2005Jim Wells County, Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 2005, 12:02 AM CST for Jim Wells County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 27 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 28, 2005, 12:02 AM CST (06:02 UTC)
Expired
Feb 24, 2005, 4:00 AM CST
In force
27 days
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Live Oak County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 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 00:00Z on 2005-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 00:00Z on 2005-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 11:45 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningCRP3 hr
Jan 28, 2:46 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningCRP59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.