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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 3, 2009Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2009, 9:33 PM CDT for Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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, 9:33 PM CDT (02:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2009, 9:59 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1399 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jun 3, 6:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:48 AM CDT, 16 hours 45 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, 4:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:33 PM CDT, 4 hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	45 min
Jun 3, 7:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	112 min
Jun 3, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	42 min
Jun 3, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	57 min
Jun 3, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	43 min
Jun 3, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	33 min
Jun 3, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Refugio, San Patricio	38 min
Jun 3, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		114 min
Jun 3, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio	35 min
Jun 3, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	26 min
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee	33 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.