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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 11, 2007Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2007, 11:05 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
Mar 11, 2007, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired
Mar 12, 2007, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
55 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), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-03-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 767 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
767 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.6

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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 Mar 11, 9:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 9:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 11, 7:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 3:15 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP3 hr
Mar 12, 3:43 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP3 hr
Mar 12, 4:18 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.