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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 22, 2022Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2022, 3:53 AM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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: May 22, 2022, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2022, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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
May 21, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 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: 3342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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 May 22, 12:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 12:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 3:42 PM CDT, 12 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 21, 11:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 12:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 12:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 1:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 2:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 3:16 AM CDT, 37 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
May 21, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Dimmit	38 min
May 21, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	50 min
May 22, 12:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	30 min
May 22, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	30 min
May 22, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	44 min
May 22, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	65 min
May 22, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	42 min
May 22, 3:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	44 min
May 22, 4:17 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		88 min
May 22, 4:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	31 min
May 22, 4:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	38 min
May 22, 5:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Refugio	48 min
May 22, 6:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	San Patricio	43 min
May 22, 6:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Nueces	36 min
May 22, 6:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	118 min
May 22, 6:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg	116 min
May 22, 7:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Jim Wells	43 min
May 22, 7:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	41 min
May 22, 7:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces	114 min
May 22, 7:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg	3 hr
May 22, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces	50 min
May 22, 7:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Bee, Live Oak, San Patricio	2 hr
May 22, 7:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	San Patricio	52 min
May 22, 8:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg	3 hr
May 22, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		97 min
May 22, 8:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Kleberg	49 min
May 22, 8:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Kleberg	3 hr
May 22, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr
May 22, 8:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Nueces	3 hr
May 22, 9:05 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		55 min
May 22, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		46 min
May 22, 9:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Nueces	28 min
May 22, 9:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Nueces	27 min
May 22, 9:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr
May 22, 10:00 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces	9 hr
May 22, 10:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Aransas	46 min
May 22, 10:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	55 min
May 22, 10:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Webb	112 min
May 22, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		74 min
May 22, 11:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Webb	119 min

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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.