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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

March 31, 2007Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2007, 4:04 AM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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 31, 2007, 4:04 AM CDT (09:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2007, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bee County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 31, 3:17 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 2007-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 294 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 2007-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 30, 9:31 PM CDT, 6 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 9:31 PM CDT, 6 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 3:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLive Oak, McMullen59 min
Mar 31, 4:57 AM CDTTornado WarningCRPGoliad33 min
Mar 31, 5:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPGoliad2 hr
Mar 31, 5:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPVictoria2 hr
Mar 31, 7:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPGoliad2 hr
Mar 31, 7:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPVictoria115 min

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.