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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

September 25, 2023Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2023, 8:03 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 25, 2023, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2023, 8:31 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 2023-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 593 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 2023-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 8:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPVictoria25 min
Sep 25, 8:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPCalhoun47 min
Sep 25, 9:07 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP53 min
Sep 25, 11:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLive Oak25 min
Sep 25, 11:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPMcMullen38 min
Sep 25, 11:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPMcMullen27 min
Sep 25, 11:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementCRPLive Oak34 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.