Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 4, 2012, 7:02 PM CST for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Feb 4, 2012, 7:02 PM CST (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2012, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
534 WUUS54 KCRP 050102 SVRCRP TXC297-050145- /O.NEW.KCRP.SV.W.0002.120205T0102Z-120205T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 702 PM CST SAT FEB 4 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 657 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GEORGE WEST...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL EASTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 2835 9791 2823 9785 2819 9802 2830 9803 TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 256DEG 15KT 2825 9798 $$ 87
1 follow-up statement
930 WWUS54 KCRP 050120 SVSCRP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 720 PM CST SAT FEB 4 2012 TXC297-050145- /O.CON.KCRP.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120205T0145Z/ LIVE OAK- 720 PM CST SAT FEB 4 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR EAST CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY... AT 714 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY...OR 13 MILES EAST OF GEORGE WEST...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LAT...LON 2821 9795 2832 9796 2835 9791 2823 9785 TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 256DEG 15KT 2827 9789 $$ 87
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 40 min |
| Feb 4, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 36 min |
| Feb 4, 9:07 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces | 113 min |
| Feb 4, 10:23 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 112 min |
| Feb 4, 11:35 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 85 min | |
| Feb 4, 11:46 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces | 119 min |
| Feb 5, 12:18 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Nueces | 87 min |
| Feb 5, 12:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 92 min | |
| Feb 5, 9:26 AM CST | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more | 93 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.