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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2009, 2:30 PM CDT for Aransas County, Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 3, 2009, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2009, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Aransas County, TX, Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 3206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 3, 12:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 12:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:48 AM CDT, 9 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 448 AM CDT WED JUN 3 2009 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-040000- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 448 AM CDT WED JUN 3 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTH TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TMT/RG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 113 PM CDT WED JUN 3 2009 TXZ247-031915- CALHOUN- 113 PM CDT WED JUN 3 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING CALHOUN COUNTY... AT 113 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF MAGNOLIA BEACH...OR 8 MILES WEST OF PORT OCONNOR...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 48 min | |
| Jun 3, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 6:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Goliad, La Salle, McMullen, Refugio and 2 more | 145 days |
| Jun 3, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio, San Patricio | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 48 min |
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.