A mid and upper level disturbance interacted with a tropical atmosphere and several mesoscale boundaries to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms across Rio Grande Plains during the early morning hours of July 7th and across the Coastal Bend during that afternoon. A brief tornado also touched down in Corpus Christi.
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A mid and upper level disturbance interacted with a tropical atmosphere and several mesoscale boundaries to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms across Rio Grande Plains during the early morning hours of July 7th and across the Coastal Bend during that afternoon. A brief tornado also touched down in Corpus Christi.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 7, 3:21 AM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 421 AM CDT SAT JUL 7 2007 SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY)...THE GFS/NAM CONTINUE TO PROG THE UPPER LOW/TROUGH TO REMAIN QUASI-STATIONARY WITH THE NERN CWFA UNDER THE MOST FAVORABLE SECTOR FOR SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT. EXPECT SCT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP TDA/SUN OVR THE REGION WITH THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD OVR THE NERN CWFA DRG THE AFTN...WITH ACTIVITY SHIFTING WWD DRG THE EVENING HOURS. EARLY MORNING CONVECTION NOTWITHSTANDING OVR THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS...DO NOT ANTICIPATE ACTIVITY LATER TNGT AS CIN INCREASES. EXPECT ANY FLOODING TO REMAIN ISOLD AND THUS WL NOT ISSUE AN FFA. && .AVIATION...IFR/MVFR CEILINGS/VISIBILITIES EXPECTED DRG THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND NEAR CONVECTION. OTHERWISE...VFR/MVFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED. && .MARINE...GENERALLY ISOLD CONVECTION EXPECTED DRG THE PERIOD. DIURNAL RISE (YET LIMITED OWING TO WEAK THERMAL CONTRAST) IN MOMENTUM NEAR THE COAST DRG THE AFTN HOURS YET BELOW SCA CRITERION. DO NOT EXPECT SEAS TO REACH SCA CRITERION...CONSISTENT WITH THE WAVEWATCH SOLN. && .LONG TERM (SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...WEAK SHEAR ZONE OR COL WILL LINGER OVER THE LONE STAR STATE AS REGION WILL BE BETWEEN AREAS OF UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST U.S. MODELS INDICATE PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES DECREASING BY MIDWEEK TO BELOW 1.75 INCHES TO EVEN LOWER VALUES BY THE END OF THE WEEK. WITH THIS SAID...WILL CONTINUE WITH DRIER FCST TREND AS THE WE PROGRESS FURTHER INTO NEXT WEEK. ANTICIPATE MAINLY ISOLD SHOWERS WITH MAIN LIFTING FOCUS BEING THE SEABREEZE BOUNDARY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. AT THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK...MAX TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN A COUPLE DEGREES BELOW NORMAL GIVEN THE SATURATED SOILS. HOWEVER...TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY COME BACK TO CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMALS WITH SOIL CONDITIONS DRYING OUT. AS SUSPECTED EARLIER...GFS IS STARTING TO SHOW SOME HINT OF UPPER LOW COMING INTO FRUITION OVER THE STATE BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK WITH SE CONUS HIGH PRESSURE AREA BREAKING DOWN OR FLATTENING AS UPPER HIGH STRENGTHENS OVER THE WESTERN U.S WHILE EASTERN CONUS TROF AMPLIFIES WITH BASE OF UPPER TROF ENCROACHING EAST TEXAS. WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF THIS GFS SOLUTION COMES TO BEAR FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 89 76 90 78 91 / 30 20 20 10 20 VICTORIA 89 75 90 76 91 / 40 20 30 10 30 LAREDO 94 78 98 79 100 / 40 30 10 10 10 ALICE 91 75 93 77 95 / 30 20 20 10 20 ROCKPORT 87 78 89 80 90 / 30 20 20 10 20 COTULLA 92 75 95 75 96 / 50 30 10 10 10 KINGSVILLE 90 77 92 78 93 / 30 20 20 10 20 NAVY CORPUS 88 78 88 80 90 / 20 20 20 10 20 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && WC/87...SHORT TERM SC/70...LONG TERM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 612 AM CDT FRI JUL 6 2007 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-071100- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 612 AM CDT FRI JUL 6 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS TODAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED SOILS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS TODAY OVER THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS REGION. LOCALIZED RAIN AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS REGION TODAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SATURDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ON SUNDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 87/70
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:00 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Between 3 and 7 inches of rain fell during the early morning hours across northwest La Salle County. Interstate 35 was eventually closed from mile marker 69 to 74 due to several feet of water over the roadway in several spots.|
Between 1 and 3 inches of rain feel quickly over already saturated ground in southwest Corpus Christi. Many frontage roads near the Crosstown Expressway and S.P.I.D. interchange were under 1 to 2 feet of water and impassable. Weber road out near Hwy 286 was also flooded and impassable. Frontage roads at S.P.I.D. and Kostoryz were under several feet of water and impassable.|
A short-lived tornado touched down in the Los Encinos subdivision near Holly and Greenwood in southwest Corpus Christi. A NWS storm survey team found EF-0 damage, including several very large tree limbs snapped, fences blown down and minor roof and siding damage.|
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