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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 23, 2006Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 2006, 2:28 PM CST for Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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: Dec 23, 2006, 2:28 PM CST (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2006, 2:51 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 379 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 Dec 22, 3:26 PM CST, 23 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 3:26 PM CST, 23 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 6:26 AM CST	Marine Weather Statement	CRP		30 hr
Dec 23, 6:56 AM CST	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	23 hr
Dec 23, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	40 min
Dec 23, 3:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	McMullen	20 min
Dec 23, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces	43 min
Dec 23, 3:52 PM CST	Wind Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio	14 hr
Dec 23, 4:10 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		50 min
Dec 23, 4:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	24 min
Dec 23, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, San Patricio	46 min
Dec 23, 5:00 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		60 min
Dec 23, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Live Oak	54 min
Dec 23, 5:58 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr

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.