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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

September 15, 2023Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2023, 9:48 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
Sep 15, 2023, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 15, 2023, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
42 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 02:52 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, 2.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2023-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1944 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 2023-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
1944 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 7:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPGoliad43 min
Sep 15, 7:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPBee36 min
Sep 15, 7:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLa Salle41 min
Sep 15, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb46 min
Sep 15, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPBee, San Patricio24 min
Sep 15, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPRefugio44 min
Sep 15, 8:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPDuval, McMullen, Webb44 min
Sep 15, 8:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPSan Patricio26 min
Sep 15, 8:23 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPDuval, La Salle, Webb3 hr
Sep 15, 8:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPRefugio, San Patricio28 min
Sep 15, 8:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPMcMullen, Webb46 min
Sep 15, 9:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPSan Patricio29 min
Sep 15, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP54 min
Sep 15, 9:22 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPWebb3 hr
Sep 15, 9:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPWebb47 min
Sep 15, 9:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPNueces28 min
Sep 15, 9:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPDuval43 min
Sep 15, 9:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPWebb3 hr
Sep 15, 9:58 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP62 min
Sep 15, 9:59 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPWebb3 hr
Sep 15, 10:06 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP54 min
Sep 15, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval17 min
Sep 15, 10:18 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPDuval3 hr
Sep 15, 10:23 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPWebb3 hr
Sep 15, 10:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPWebb46 min
Sep 15, 10:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPDuval41 min
Sep 15, 11:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPDuval46 min
Sep 15, 11:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPDuval33 min
Sep 16, 3:12 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCRPVictoria103 min
Sep 16, 3:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPKleberg23 min
Sep 16, 4:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPKleberg30 min
Sep 16, 4:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPRefugio24 min
Sep 16, 5:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPSan Patricio36 min
Sep 16, 5:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPRefugio25 min
Sep 16, 6:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPSan Patricio30 min
Sep 16, 6:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPAransas26 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.