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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 4, 2006Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2006, 6:44 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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: May 4, 2006, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1799 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KCRP 042345
SVRCRP
TXC479-050045-
/O.NEW.KCRP.SV.W.0021.060504T2344Z-060505T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
644 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWEST WEBB COUNTY IN SOUTH TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  EL CENIZO...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF LAREDO...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RIO BRAVO BY 700 PM CDT

LAT...LON 2736 9964 2720 9954 2737 9910 2760 9924

$$

98/MW

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KCRP 050012
SVSCRP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
711 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006

TXC479-050030-
/O.CON.KCRP.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060505T0030Z/
WEBB-
711 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT 
FOR SOUTHWEST WEBB COUNTY...

AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE 
STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LAREDO TO RIO BRAVO 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LAREDO AND RIO BRAVO THROUGH 730 PM...

LAT...LON 2759 9952 2729 9945 2741 9904 2772 9922

$$

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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.