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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2005, 10:13 PM CDT for La Salle County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- May 28, 2005, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2005, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County La Salle County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 May 28, 8:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 8:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 10:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1030 AM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-282100- 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- 1030 AM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE SEA BREEZE DURING THE AFTERNOON FROM VICTORIA TO REFUGIO TO CORPUS CHRISTI. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON. A STRONGER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT WITH A BETTER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE WITH WIND BEING THE MAIN THREAT AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...HOWEVER NO MAJOR FLOODING IS ANTICIPATED AS THE GROUND REMAINS DRY AND THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE FAIRLY QUICKLY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM SATURDAY NIGHT WILL LIKELY TAPER OFF SUNDAY MORNING AS THE INITIAL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST AND THE ATMOSPHERE STABILIZES BRIEFLY. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS OLD MEXICO INTO SOUTH TEXAS EARLY MONDAY. WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY ERUPT ONCE AGAIN ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SUNDAY NIGHT WITH STORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. HIGH ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE A CHANCE OF STRONG OR POSSIBLY EVEN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLY HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES. WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE IN PLACE AND SLOW TO MODERATE STORM MOTION...SOME LOCATIONS IN THE COASTAL BEND AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS MAY SEE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. MOISTURE WILL LINGER ACROSS THE REGION PROVIDING A CHANCE OF ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SEA BREEZE GENERATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. TE/MG/91
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 8:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 828 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 TXZ229-290200- LA SALLE- 828 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS AFFECTING NORTHERN LA SALLE COUNTY... AT 824 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WOODWARD...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF COTULLA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 94
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 54 min |
| May 28, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 57 min |
| May 29, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 91 min | |
| May 29, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 53 min |
| May 29, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 66 min |
| May 29, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 40 min |
| May 29, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| May 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 65 min |
| May 29, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 56 min |
| May 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 59 min |
| May 29, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak | 53 min |
| May 29, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.