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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2006, 6:32 PM CDT for La Salle County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 14, 2006, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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 23:35 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.
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 14, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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
- 3333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.0
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 14, 3:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 10:26 AM CDT, 8 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1026 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-151530- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 1026 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG LATE SEASON COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO SOUTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT. ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS OUT AHEAD OF IT WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS AND THE COASTAL WATERS. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. BETWEEN 400 PM AND MIDNIGHT WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL CONTINUE TODAY FOR A PORTION OF THE COASTAL WATERS DUE TO STRONG ONSHORE FLOW. THIS ONSHORE FLOW WILL WEAKEN THROUGHOUT THE DAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENDING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON MONDAY AS DRIER AIR WORKS IN FROM THE NORTH BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. DRY WEATHER IS THEN EXPECTED BEYOND MONDAY. STRONG WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL PRODUCE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS ON MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS HIGHLY LIKELY LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 42 min |
| May 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 56 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.