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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2012, 6:49 PM CDT for La Salle 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2012, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2012, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County La Salle County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2784 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.3
- Supercell composite
- 18.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
029
WUUS54 KCRP 192349
SVRCRP
TXC283-200030-
/O.NEW.KCRP.SV.W.0013.120319T2349Z-120320T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
649 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN LA SALLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 639 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODWARD...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
COTULLA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WOODWARD...
MILLET...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 2864 9907 2844 9928 2853 9941 2860 9940
2865 9936 2865 9907
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 231DEG 24KT 2857 9927
$$
JR1 follow-up statement
561
WWUS54 KCRP 200007
SVSCRP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
707 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012
TXC283-200030-
/O.CON.KCRP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120320T0030Z/
LA SALLE-
707 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL LA SALLE COUNTY...
AT 658 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MILLET...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DILLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL NORTHERN LA SALLE COUNTY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 2864 9907 2854 9926 2857 9934 2865 9936
2865 9907
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 230DEG 19KT 2863 9921
$$
JRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 11:37 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:58 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 5 more | 27 hr |
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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.