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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2024, 7:32 AM CDT for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Mar 15, 2024, 7:32 AM CDT (12:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2024, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 17.8
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 Mar 15, 6:44 AM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 6:44 AM CDT, 48 minutes before
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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.