Below normal rainfall occurred over the Coastal Bend and Victoria Crossroads. With soil moisture lacking, severe drought conditions reformed over portions of the Coastal Bend and Victoria Crossroads regions by the end of the month.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.
Below normal rainfall occurred over the Coastal Bend and Victoria Crossroads. With soil moisture lacking, severe drought conditions reformed over portions of the Coastal Bend and Victoria Crossroads regions by the end of the month.
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 Dec 19, 11:03 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1103 PM CST THU DEC 19 2013
.DISCUSSION...UPDATE FOR 06Z AVIATION DISCUSSION.
&&
.AVIATION...TRANSITIONING TO A MIX OF VFR/MVFR OVERNIGHT WITH
BRIEF IFR POSSIBLE /MAINLY KVCT/. STRONG SRLY LLJ OVERHEAD TONIGHT
WILL AID IN DVLPMNT OF STRATUS WITH CIGS AND VSBYS LOWERING TO
MVFR LEVELS. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE BACK TO MVFR AT ALL
TERMINALS BY LATE MRNG FRI AND THRU THE AFTN...BEFORE
TRANSITIONING BACK TO MVFR FRI EVENING. LIGHT TO MODERATE SRLY SFC
WINDS TONIGHT TO BECOMING STRONG AND GUSTY DRNG THE DAY FRIDAY AS
LLJ MIXES TO SFC. MENTION OF NON CONVECTIVE LLWS IS REQUIRED FOR
TONIGHT FOR KALI/KVCT AND POSSIBLY KCRP.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
CORPUS CHRISTI 68 79 68 83 52 / 10 10 20 30 0
VICTORIA 64 78 67 79 48 / 10 10 30 70 10
LAREDO 62 86 67 83 50 / 0 10 20 20 0
ALICE 64 84 68 85 51 / 10 10 20 20 0
ROCKPORT 65 73 68 78 51 / 10 10 30 50 10
COTULLA 58 82 64 79 46 / 0 10 20 30 0
KINGSVILLE 66 83 69 86 53 / 10 10 20 20 0
NAVY CORPUS 66 75 70 79 54 / 10 10 20 30 0
&&
.CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
GM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM CST FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: 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.
&&
RH/79...AVIATIONHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 335 PM CST THU DEC 19 2013 TXZ229>234-239>247-202130- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 335 PM CST THU DEC 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION...WITH SOME OF THE FOG POSSIBLY BECOMING DENSE AT TIMES...MAINLY ACROSS THE BRUSH COUNTRY. ASIDE FROM THE FOG...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AREAS OF FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE BRUSH COUNTRY. SOME OF THE FOG MAY BECOME LOCALLY DENSE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY...MAINLY NORTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 37...IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE NORTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 37... PRODUCING MAINLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SMALL HAIL. DRY AIR AND GUSTY WIND WILL COMBINE WITH CURED FUELS TO PRODUCE ELEVATED TO POSSIBLY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE BRUSH COUNTRY AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED SATURDAY ACROSS THE NORTHERN COASTAL BEND AND VICTORIA CROSSROADS. GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-202130- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- 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- 335 PM CST THU DEC 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN BAYS AND SOUTHERN NEARSHORE WATERS UNTIL 9 PM CST. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS UNTIL 9 AM CST FRIDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE GULF WATERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY DUE TO STRONG ONSHORE WINDS...AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AS OFFSHORE FLOW INCREASES BEHIND A SECOND COLD FRONT. SEA FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY...MAINLY NORTH OF PORT ARANSAS...IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE NORTH OF PORT ARANSAS...PRODUCING MAINLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SMALL HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TE/JR
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought reformed over the southern portion of the county by the latter part of the month.
Severe drought reformed over the southern portion of the county by the latter part of the month.
Severe drought reformed over the northwestern portion of the county by the latter part of the month.
Severe drought reformed over the county by the latter part of the month.
Severe drought reformed over the county by the latter part of the month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, December 2013
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 484248, 484249, 484250, 484251, 484252.