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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2021, 8:59 PM CDT for Bee County, Goliad County, Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 23, 2021, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2021, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 883 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted.
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WUUS54 KCRP 240159
SVRCRP
TXC025-175-391-240230-
/O.NEW.KCRP.SV.W.0004.210424T0159Z-210424T0230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
859 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
South central Goliad County in south central Texas...
Western Refugio County in south central Texas...
East central Bee County in south central Texas...
* Until 930 PM CDT.
* At 858 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles west of
Blanconia, or 13 miles east of Beeville, moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect
wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Refugio, Woodsboro and Blanconia.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 183 between mile markers 658 and 668.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 618 and 634.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Prepare immediately for large hail and damaging winds. People outside
should move immediately to shelter inside a strong building. Stay
away from windows.
&&
LAT...LON 2836 9767 2851 9759 2845 9715 2815 9738
TIME...MOT...LOC 0158Z 286DEG 39KT 2841 9753
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
87The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, McMullen | 27 min |
| Apr 23, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 9:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Victoria | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 9:49 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 73 min | |
| Apr 24, 1:52 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | CRP | 8 hr | |
| Apr 24, 5:07 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 4 more | 5 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.