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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 29, 2024Duval County, McMullen County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2024, 12:01 AM CDT for Duval County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 29, 2024, 12:01 AM CDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2024, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Duval County, TX, McMullen County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:05 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 28, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 3033 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.6
Supercell composite: -4.8

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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 28, 9:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 9:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 9:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 10:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 11:01 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 11:50 PM CDT, 11 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 28, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	48 min
May 28, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle, Webb	64 min
May 28, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	39 min
May 28, 10:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Webb	119 min
May 28, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Webb	66 min
May 28, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Webb	52 min
May 28, 10:58 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		69 min
May 28, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	McMullen	29 min
May 28, 11:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	25 min
May 29, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen	40 min
May 29, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CRP	Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, San Patricio	21 min
May 29, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	San Patricio	25 min
May 29, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Nueces	23 min
May 29, 1:47 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		43 min
May 29, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Aransas	40 min
May 29, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio	15 min
May 29, 2:24 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		66 min
May 29, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Aransas	48 min
May 29, 3:37 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 7 more	3 hr

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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.