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Special Weather Statement, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 3, 2019Calhoun County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2019, 11:21 PM CDT for Calhoun 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 2019, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 2019, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

County Calhoun County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 556 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2019-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 3, 6:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 6:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 8:19 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningCRPCalhoun, Refugio, Victoria18 days
May 3, 9:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLa Salle39 min
May 3, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPBee, Goliad, Live Oak, Victoria52 min
May 3, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLa Salle, Live Oak, McMullen53 min
May 3, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPBee, Calhoun, Goliad, Live Oak, Refugio, Victoria49 min
May 3, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen48 min
May 3, 11:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPAransas, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio44 min
May 3, 11:05 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP85 min
May 3, 11:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPAransas, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio41 min
May 4, 12:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPKleberg47 min
May 4, 12:19 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP26 min
May 4, 12:37 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP38 min
May 4, 1:28 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP32 min
May 4, 3:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLa Salle35 min
May 4, 4:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLive Oak, McMullen33 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.