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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2009, 12:54 PM CDT for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 26, 2009, 12:54 PM CDT (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2009, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 26, 12:34 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 12:34 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 11:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1129 AM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 TXZ240-241-261730- DUVAL-JIM WELLS- 1129 AM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING DUVAL AND JIM WELLS COUNTIES... AT 1128 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF ROSITA...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... ROSITA BY 1140 AM CDT. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:11 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | CRP | 32 hr | |
| Mar 26, 6:02 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 33 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, San Patricio | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Refugio, San Patricio | 51 min |
| Mar 26, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 22 min |
| Mar 26, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Mar 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 59 min |
| Mar 26, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 5:23 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | CRP | 97 min | |
| Mar 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 35 min |
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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.