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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 22, 2014Bee County, Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 2014, 8:25 PM CST for Bee County, Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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: Nov 22, 2014, 8:25 PM CST (02:25 UTC)
Expired: Nov 22, 2014, 8:46 PM CST
In force: 21 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 02:28 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
Nov 22, 3:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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: 1796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 6.8

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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 Nov 22, 8:18 PM CST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 8:18 PM CST, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 22, 8:15 PM CST, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 22, 6:22 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
622 PM CST SAT NOV 22 2014

TXZ241>243-230115-
JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-
622 PM CST SAT NOV 22 2014

...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS AFFECTING JIM
WELLS...WESTERN KLEBERG AND WESTERN NUECES COUNTIES...

AT 619 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PALITO BLANCO...OR 12 MILES EAST OF
BENAVIDES...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN JIM WELLS...WESTERN KLEBERG AND WESTERN NUECES
COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF PALITO BLANCO AND BEN BOLT...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.

MOTHBALL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

TJ

Special weather statement, Nov 22, 7:00 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
700 PM CST SAT NOV 22 2014

TXZ242>244-230200-
KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-
700 PM CST SAT NOV 22 2014

...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS AFFECTING KLEBERG...NUECES
AND SAN PATRICIO COUNTIES...

AT 659 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BLUNTZER...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF
MATHIS...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

PEOPLE IN KLEBERG...NUECES AND SAN PATRICIO COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE
CITIES OF BLUNTZER...SAN PATRICIO...CORPUS CHRISTI...CALALLEN...ODEM
AND TAFT...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD
SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

TJ

Special weather statement, Nov 22, 7:26 PM CST, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 22, 7:37 PM CST, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 22, 8:03 PM CST, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 22, 8:20 PM CST, 5 minutes 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
Nov 22, 7:09 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		111 min
Nov 22, 7:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	43 min
Nov 22, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio	31 min
Nov 22, 7:55 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		110 min
Nov 22, 8:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	35 min
Nov 22, 8:15 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		3 hr
Nov 22, 8:55 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		95 min
Nov 22, 9:19 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		56 min
Nov 22, 9:50 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		55 min
Nov 22, 9:56 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		94 min
Nov 23, 3:16 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	CRP		27 hr

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.