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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 12, 2014Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2014, 11:54 PM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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: May 12, 2014, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2014, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bee County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 2559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

712 
WUUS54 KCRP 130454
SVRCRP
TXC025-130530-
/O.NEW.KCRP.SV.W.0021.140513T0454Z-140513T0530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1154 PM CDT MON MAY 12 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1152 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  PAWNEE...OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF THREE RIVERS...AND MOVING NORTH
  AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MINERAL

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.

&&

LAT...LON 2869 9787 2869 9784 2867 9781 2844 9794
      2863 9807 2868 9806 2871 9798 2872 9791
TIME...MOT...LOC 0454Z 202DEG 32KT 2862 9796

$$

LK

2 follow-up statements

262 
WWUS54 KCRP 130506
SVSCRP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1206 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

TXC025-130530-
/O.CON.KCRP.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-140513T0530Z/
BEE-
1206 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN BEE COUNTY...

AT 1201 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR PAWNEE...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENEDY...MOVING NORTH
AT 35 MPH.

LAT...LON 2869 9787 2869 9784 2867 9781 2846 9794
      2863 9807 2867 9806 2868 9805 2871 9798
      2872 9791
TIME...MOT...LOC 0506Z 202DEG 32KT 2872 9791

$$

LK

405 
WWUS54 KCRP 130528
SVSCRP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1228 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

TXC025-130537-
/O.EXP.KCRP.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-140513T0530Z/
BEE-
1228 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN BEE COUNTY WILL 
EXPIRE AT 1230 AM CDT...




LAT...LON 2869 9787 2869 9784 2867 9781 2846 9794
      2863 9807 2867 9806 2868 9805 2871 9798
      2872 9791
TIME...MOT...LOC 0527Z 202DEG 32KT 2889 9783

$$

LK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	48 min
May 12, 9:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Webb	3 hr
May 12, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb	43 min
May 13, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	40 min
May 13, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria	58 min
May 13, 2:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Goliad	56 min
May 13, 3:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Duval	63 min
May 13, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		54 min
May 13, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Refugio, San Patricio	66 min
May 13, 4:12 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		63 min
May 13, 9:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria	4 days
May 13, 9:45 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	CRP		38 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.