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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 7, 2025Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2025, 2:39 AM CDT for Jim Wells County, Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 7, 2025, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 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 7, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 3957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 7, 1:46 AM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 1:46 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 9:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 9:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 9:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 10:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 2:07 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 2:21 AM CDT, 18 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 6, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Victoria	42 min
May 6, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	46 min
May 6, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells	48 min
May 6, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, Victoria	42 min
May 6, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	21 min
May 6, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	66 min
May 6, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	64 min
May 6, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	41 min
May 6, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio	49 min
May 6, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Webb	39 min
May 6, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	67 min
May 6, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, Webb	46 min
May 6, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	San Patricio	24 min
May 7, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CRP	Webb	38 min
May 7, 2:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	23 min
May 7, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Zapata	39 min
May 7, 2:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	49 min
May 7, 2:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	40 min
May 7, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	12 min
May 7, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	29 min
May 7, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	49 min
May 7, 3:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Kleberg	29 min
May 7, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	14 min
May 7, 3:39 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		39 min
May 7, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	35 min
May 7, 3:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Jim Wells	41 min
May 7, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle	15 min
May 7, 4:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	La Salle	29 min
May 7, 4:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	44 min
May 7, 4:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Kleberg	47 min
May 7, 4:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Calhoun	41 min
May 7, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		93 min
May 7, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Nueces	32 min
May 7, 5:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Calhoun	32 min
May 7, 6:18 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		57 min
May 7, 7:16 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		59 min
May 7, 4:40 PM CDT	Rip Current Statement	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces	14 hr
May 7, 4:41 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	CRP		11 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.