Lightning struck an oil tank and started a fire on Beck Road East north of Inez.
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Lightning struck an oil tank and started a fire on Beck Road East north of Inez.
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NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 13, 11:53 AM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1253 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2012 .DISCUSSION...SEE 18Z AVIATION DISCUSSION. && .MARINE...THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOWS FROM CONVECTION OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS HAS CLEARED OUT SOUTHERN AREAS...AND AT THIS TIME FEEL CHANCES FOR CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON ARE MORE LIMITED (SO HAVE REMOVED THUNDER FROM KCRP AND KLRD THIS AFTERNOON). HOWEVER...BY LATE AFTERNOON CONVECTION COULD FIRE UP FARTHER WEST NEAR KALI AND EVENTUALLY KLRD...SO HAVE MENTIONED VCTS THERE AT 13/21Z AND 14/01Z...RESPECTIVELY. EXPECTING IT TO BE QUIET AT KCRP...AND CONVECTION WANING AT KVCT BY 13/21Z. OUTFLOWS HAVE ALSO MADE WINDS MORE TO THE SOUTH...AND THAT WILL LIKELY CHANGE LATER THIS AFTERNOON WITH A DELAYED SEA-BREEZE (CONVECTION AND NOT AS WARM TEMPERATURES). EXPECTING CONVECTION TO DEVELOP AFTER SUNSET TONIGHT...FIRST MORE LIKELY AT KLRD DUE TO CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVER THE MEXICAN MOUNTAINS AND POSSIBLY MOVING ACROSS THE BORDER...THEN OVER THE COASTAL WATERS AND MOVING INLAND INTO KCRP...KVCT...AND POSSIBLY INTO KALI AFTER 06Z (KALI COULD GET IT MORE FROM THE NORTH/WEST THAN FROM CONVECTION IN GULFMEX MOVING INLAND). WITH FRONT MOVING INTO THE AREA FRIDAY...SHOULD BE A FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND TEMPO THUNDER...AND HAVE INCLUDED THIS IN THE TERMINALS AFTER 13Z (BUT DO HAVE CATEGORICAL SHOWERS THROUGH 18Z). WINDS BY FRIDAY SHOULD MAINLY BE NORTHEAST TO EAST BUT LESS THAN 11 KNOTS AREA-WIDE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1107 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2012/ DISCUSSION...UPDATED FORECAST TO INCREASE POPS OVER PORTIONS OF THE AREA (ESPECIALLY WEST)...AND GOING SCATTERED FOR THE COVERAGE. DID INCREASE TEMPERATURES MAINLY AWAY FROM THE COAST AND MASSAGED CLOUD COVER. RAIN FORECAST TONIGHT AND FRIDAY LOOKS REASONABLE AT THIS TIME...ALONG WITH WIND SHIFT BOUNDARY. NO OTHER CHANGES AT THIS TIME. PRODUCTS ARE OUT. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 735 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2012/ DISCUSSION...NOTE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. AVIATION...COMBINATION OF MVFR/VFR CONDITIONS TODAY ESPECIALLY NEAR ISOLD/SCT CONVECTION. THIS EVENING...VFR CONDITIONS GENERALLY EAST OF U.S. 281. ISOLD/SCT CONVECTION DEVELOPING WEST. AFTER MIDNIGHT...CONVECTION DEVELOPING AREAWIDE WITH GREATEST CHANCE FOR ACTIVITY OVER THE COASTAL WATERS/ALONG THE COAST AND WEST OF 281. PREDOMINATE MVFR CONDITIONS. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 443 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2012/ SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY)...LATEST MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTS A COLD FRONT ACRS THE NRN SECTIONS OF TX. THE SWD MOVEMENT OF THIS FRONT IS PROGD TO DECREASE SOMEWHAT DRG THE PERIOD (NAM/GFS DETERMINISTIC OUTPUT.) THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE EWD SHIFT IN THE SFC ANTICYCLONE BEHIND THE FRONT AS THE CORRESPONDING UPPER DISTURBANCE MOVES EWD ACRS THE NRN PLAINS/MIDWEST. FURTHER...A WEAKER UPPER TROUGH IS PROGD TO STRENGTHEN OVER THE SWRN CONUS NW OF THE CWA WHICH WILL LIKELY ALSO RETARD SWD PROGRESSION OF THE FRONT. PROXIMITY SOUNDINGS/GOES SOUNDER PWAT DATA SUGGESTIVE OF COPIOUS MSTR OVER AT LEAST THE ERN CWA/MSA. THE COMBINATION OF MSTR AND INSTABILITY (GFS CIN/CAPE/LI) WILL CONTRIBUTE TO ISOLD/SCT CONVECTION TODAY WITH GREATEST CHANCE OVR THE ERN CWA/MSA. THE NSSL 4KM WRF-ARW AND GFS DETERMINISTIC PROG ENHANCED PCPN OVR THE WRN CWA TNGT...CONSISTENT WITH WEAK UPPER SUPPORT/FOREGOING COLD FRONT...AND THUS WL ISSUE GREATEST POPS OVR THE WRN CWA FOR TNGT. SCT/NUMEROUS CONVECTION EXPECTED OVR MUCH OF THE CWA/MSA FRIDAY WITH GREATEST CHANCE OVR THE WRN/CNTRL CWA OWING TO THE FRONT/FOREGOING STRENGTHENING UPPER DISTURBANCE TO THE NW. ANTICIPATE PROGRESSIVELY COOLER MAX TEMPS TODAY/FRIDAY OWING TO GREATER MSTR/CLOUD COVER/CONVECTION. LONG TERM (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)...VERY COMPLICATED FORECAST CONTINUES IN THE LONG TERM PERIOD. STARTING OUT WITH THE WRENCH THROWN IN THE FORECAST FOR THE LATE WEEK COLD FRONT. MODELS PRETTY MUCH ALL SEEM TO BE IN AGREEMENT TO DEVELOP A WEAK SURFACE LOW ALONG THE FRONT LATE FRIDAY STALLING IT IN THE FORECAST AREA. NAM SHOWS A SLUG OF DRY AIR (FROM SUBSIDENCE BEHIND UPPER TROUGH) MOVING FROM LOUISIANA DOWN TO SOUTH TEXAS ON FRIDAY NIGHT...PUTTING A BIT OF A QUESTION INTO PRECIP FORECAST...BUT DON/T WANT TO BACK OFF TOO MUCH YET. THERE IS BETTER MODEL AGREEMENT NOW WITH THE MOISTURE LINGERING BEHIND THE FRONT..SO HAVE INCREASED POPS A BIT FOR SUNDAY...NOW KEEPING AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE DAY SUNDAY. THEN TRAILING THE POPS OFF OVERNIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT WITH EVERYONE EXCEPT MARINE ZONES DRY BY MONDAY. QPF DETAILS ARE TOUGH TO NAIL DOWN...BUT LOOKS LIKE THE BIGGEST RAINFALL TOTALS WOULD BE TO THE WEST...ESPECIALLY IF THE FRONT DOES STALL AND KEEPS THE DEEP MOISTURE FOCUSED ALONG AND BEHIND IT. CANT RULE OUT THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME MINOR FLOODING CONCERNS BY THE END OF THIS RAINFALL EVENT IN WESTERN AREAS. WILL LET NEXT SHIFTS MAKE ANY FINAL DECISIONS ON CONCERNS WITH THIS. HAVE STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS (TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY) RANGING FROM AROUND 1.5 INCHES IN THE NORTHEAST...TO 3 INCHES IN THE WEST. TEMPERATURE FORECAST...WHILE A BIT EASIER THAN PRECIP FORECAST...IS HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON THE RAINFALL AND CLOUD COVER. HAVE MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES IN THE FORECAST THROUGH SUNDAY...WHICH ALONG WITH OFF AND ON RAIN SHOULD KEEP TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW NORMAL FOR THE WEEKEND. STILL NOT WILLING TO GO AS COLD AS SOME GUIDANCE WOULD INDICATE. WHILE HAVE KEPT FORECAST HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE UPPER 80S...THERE IS CERTAINLY POTENTIAL FOR COOLER HIGHS. RAW ECMWF GUIDANCE HAS TEMPS RIGHT AROUND 80 ON SATURDAY FOR MOST OF THE AREA...WITH THE CANADIAN EVEN COOLER. GFS JUMPS ON BOARD WITH THE COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR SUNDAY WITH RAW GUIDANCE AROUND 80...THOUGH MEX NUMBERS ARE IN THE MID AND UPPER 80S. THE DRIER NAM HAS WARMER TEMPERATURE. ONCE THIS FRONT PUSHES OUT OF THE AREA...WILL HAVE A NARROW RIDGE PASS OVER ON MONDAY...THEN THE NEXT POTENTIAL FROM BRINGS MORE FORECAST CHALLENGES. WHILE THE GFS HAD BEEN SHOWING THIS FRONT...IT NOW IS DEVELOPING ANOTHER SURFACE LOW ALONG IT TO OUR NORTHWEST STALLING IT OUT AND EVENTUALLY DISSIPATING IT. THE ECMWF HOWEVER HAS COME IN WITH A SIMILAR UPPER LEVEL SOLUTION WITH ANOTHER DIGGING TROUGH BUT NOT A SURFACE LOW...AND THUS PUSHES THE FRONT THROUGH ON TUESDAY. INTERESTINGLY...THE CANADIAN ALSO HAS BOUGHT INTO THE FRONT...AND SHOWS A FRONT STRONG ENOUGH TO GET EXCITED ABOUT...WITH A NICE SHOT OF COOL AIR...HOWEVER...THE CANADIAN MODEL DOESNT HAVE A GOOD TRACK RECORD IN THE LONG TERM PERIOD AND WILL LIKELY BACK OFF ON THIS FRONT AND TREND MORE TOWARD THE SOLUTION OF THE GFS OR ECMWF. FOR NOW HAVE JUST GONE WITH A MORE GFS SOLUTION THAN ANYTHING ELSE. FAR TOO EARLY TO GET TOO DETAILED WITH THIS FRONT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 94 77 89 74 88 / 50 40 50 40 50 VICTORIA 93 73 90 71 89 / 50 40 50 40 50 LAREDO 99 75 88 73 89 / 30 60 60 50 50 ALICE 97 75 90 72 89 / 40 30 50 40 50 ROCKPORT 91 78 87 76 85 / 50 50 50 40 50 COTULLA 95 73 88 69 87 / 30 60 60 50 50 KINGSVILLE 95 76 90 73 89 / 50 30 50 40 50 NAVY CORPUS 91 79 87 76 87 / 50 40 50 40 50 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && GW/86...SHORT TERM LK/84...LONG TERM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 521 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2012 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-141030- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT O'CONNOR- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 521 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTH TEXAS FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. THERE IS A CHANCE MINOR FLOODING OCCUR IN WESTERN AREAS IF THE COLD FRONT STALLS ACROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 87/83
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1222 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2012 TXZ234-131800- VICTORIA- 1222 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING VICTORIA COUNTY... AT 1217 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR VICTORIA MALL...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF VICTORIA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GW
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:19 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Victoria Advocate reported lightning struck an oil tank on Beck Road East north of Inez. The lightning started a fire from the vapors within the tank. The fire was extinguished without any damages or injuries.
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