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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 25, 2024Goliad County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 25, 2024, 1:23 AM CST for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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: Dec 25, 2024, 1:23 AM CST (07:23 UTC)
Expired: Dec 25, 2024, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Goliad County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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
Dec 24, 11:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1557 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 91 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.8
Supercell composite: 19.3

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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 Dec 25, 12:01 AM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 12:01 AM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 25, 12:33 AM CST, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 25, 1:00 AM CST, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 25, 1:06 AM CST, 17 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
Dec 24, 11:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad	61 min
Dec 25, 12:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	50 min
Dec 25, 12:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	57 min
Dec 25, 1:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	60 min
Dec 25, 1:02 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	59 min
Dec 25, 1:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	39 min
Dec 25, 1:35 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	55 min
Dec 25, 2:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	2 hr
Dec 25, 2:04 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	56 min
Dec 25, 2:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	60 min
Dec 25, 2:44 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Calhoun, Goliad, Victoria	3 hr
Dec 25, 3:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	60 min
Dec 25, 3:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Calhoun	58 min
Dec 25, 3:39 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr
Dec 25, 5:04 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		86 min
Dec 25, 6:27 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		51 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.