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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 13, 2024Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2024, 4:10 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 13, 2024, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2024, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 13, 8:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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: 3519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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 13, 3:49 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 3:49 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 13, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 3:12 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 3:35 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 3:41 PM CDT, 29 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 13, 9:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	37 min
May 13, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	27 min
May 13, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Live Oak	51 min
May 13, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria	44 min
May 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	McMullen	25 min
May 13, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	50 min
May 13, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	27 min
May 13, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	McMullen	32 min
May 13, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Victoria	28 min
May 13, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	37 min
May 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	32 min
May 13, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	34 min
May 13, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	51 min
May 13, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	31 min
May 13, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Jim Wells	29 min
May 13, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CRP	Webb	51 min
May 13, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Webb	60 min
May 13, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Bee	25 min
May 13, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Zapata	24 min
May 13, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Jim Wells	32 min
May 13, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Jim Wells	28 min
May 13, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	27 min
May 13, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells	14 min
May 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	30 min
May 13, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Kleberg	24 min
May 13, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		54 min
May 13, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	39 min
May 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg	48 min
May 13, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Nueces	32 min
May 13, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Refugio	28 min
May 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	20 min
May 13, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		55 min
May 13, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	16 min
May 13, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		60 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.