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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2023, 6:03 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 28, 2023, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 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 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 28, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 1016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 28, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 427 PM CDT Fri Apr 28 2023 TXZ229>234-239>247-342>347-442-443-447-291200- La Salle-McMullen-Live Oak-Bee-Goliad-Victoria-Webb-Duval-Jim Wells- Inland Kleberg-Inland Nueces-Inland San Patricio-Coastal Aransas- Inland Refugio-Inland Calhoun-Coastal Kleberg-Coastal Nueces- Coastal San Patricio-Aransas Islands-Coastal Refugio-Coastal Calhoun- Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 427 PM CDT Fri Apr 28 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south Texas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected across south Texas this evening into the early overnight hours ahead of a cold front. Damaging winds and large hail are the primary hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. GMZ231-232-236-237-250-255-270-275-291200- Baffin Bay and Upper Laguna Madre-Corpus Christi and Nueces Bays- Copano, Aransas, and Redfish Bays- San Antonio, Mesquite, and Espiritu Santo Bays- Coastal waters from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas out 20 NM- Coastal waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship Channel out 20 NM- Waters from Baffin Bay to Port Aransas from 20 to 60 NM- Waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship Channel from 20 to 60 NM- 427 PM CDT Fri Apr 28 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Middle Texas Coastal Waters. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected across the coastal waters late this evening into the early overnight hours ahead of a cold front. Damaging winds and large hail are the primary hazards. A Gale Warning is in effect beginning at 4 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Gale Warning is in effect for Saturday for the coastal waters. Small Craft Advisory conditions will linger over the Gulf waters Saturday evening. TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:55 AM CDT | Gale Watch | CRP | 11 hr | |
| Apr 28, 2:47 PM CDT | Gale Warning | CRP | 28 hr | |
| Apr 28, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 41 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.