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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2008, 11:31 PM CDT for La Salle County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 2008, 11:31 PM CDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2008, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties La Salle County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.7
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, 9:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 9:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 53 min |
| May 14, 10:41 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | CRP | 3 hr | |
| May 15, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.