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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

April 15, 2023Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2023, 8:44 PM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 15, 2023, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 2023, 9:17 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
2.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Live Oak County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 2023-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4141 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 2023-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
4141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 7:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPKleberg30 min
Apr 15, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPKleberg29 min
Apr 15, 9:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLive Oak25 min
Apr 15, 9:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPVictoria35 min
Apr 15, 9:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPMcMullen36 min
Apr 15, 10:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLive Oak29 min
Apr 15, 10:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLive Oak27 min
Apr 15, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPLive Oak, McMullen44 min
Apr 15, 11:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPJim Wells29 min
Apr 15, 11:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPJim Wells32 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.