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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 10, 2013Bee County, Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2013, 7:59 PM CDT for Bee County, Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: May 10, 2013, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2013, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 10, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.3
Supercell composite: -1.8

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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 May 10, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 7:34 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
734 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013

GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-111200-
BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS-
BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT O'CONNOR-
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-
734 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE
TEXAS COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS
TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CAN NOT BE
RULED OUT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT
FOR ALL OF SOUTH TEXAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST ON
SATURDAY ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER
CONCERN SHIFTING MORE SOUTH OF THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN
IN THE FORECAST OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AND SOUTHERN BRUSH
COUNTRY SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES SPREADING
FARTHER NORTH AND EAST ON TUESDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH
APPROACHES TEXAS. HOWEVER...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED
SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED TONIGHT. PLEASE RELAY ALL REPORTS
TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS
CHRISTI.

JR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Live Oak	47 min
May 10, 10:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Webb	2 hr
May 10, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	28 min
May 11, 12:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Webb	78 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.