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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

April 24, 2015Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2015, 6:51 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 24, 2015, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2015, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 484 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 24, 6:14 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 6:14 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 24, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
356 PM CDT FRI APR 24 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0450 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG KINGSVILLE              27.51N 97.86W
04/24/2015                   KLEBERG            TX   PUBLIC

            LARGE TREE BLOWN ONTO CAR DURING WAKE LOW

0500 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG ROBSTOWN                27.80N 97.66W
04/24/2015                   NUECES             TX   PUBLIC

            LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN ALONG HOME DURING WAKE LOW

0503 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 5 SW PORTLAND           27.83N 97.39W
04/24/2015                   NUECES             TX   PUBLIC

            BOAT ON TRAILER BLOWN INTO RV AT CONDO DURING WAKE LOW

&&

HART

Special weather statement, Apr 24, 6:44 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
644 PM CDT FRI APR 24 2015

TXZ239-250030-
WEBB-
644 PM CDT FRI APR 24 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WEBB COUNTY...

AT 643 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CHUPADERA RANCH AIRPORT...OR 29 MILES SOUTH OF EL INDIO...MOVING EAST
AT 40 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHUPADERA RANCH AIRPORT AND LA ESPERANZA RANCH AIRPORT.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY CAN RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI .

LAT...LON 2820 9947 2807 9943 2800 9999 2807 10002
      2809 10005 2815 10008 2820 10021
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 256DEG 35KT 2809 10032

HART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 3:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	25 min
Apr 24, 4:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	32 min
Apr 24, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		89 min
Apr 24, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Nueces	29 min
Apr 24, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		91 min
Apr 24, 5:05 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	CRP	Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	64 min
Apr 24, 5:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	37 hr
Apr 24, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Dimmit	46 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.