Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 1, 1990, 4:41 PM CST for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 1, 1990, 4:41 PM CST (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 1, 1990, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 1, 3:14 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
TXZ040>040-DDHHHH- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 313 PM CST THUR FEB 1 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM TODAY FOR LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORM CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM TODAY. RADAR SHOWED THUNDER- STORMS NEAR COTULA NORTHWARD TO WEST OF SAN ANTONIO WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT IN THOSE COUNTIES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THOSE COUNTIES UNTILL 900 PM TODAY. PERSONS IN THOSE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Feb 1, 3:15 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
TXZ040>040-020300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 313 PM CST THUR FEB 1 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM TODAY FOR LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORM CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM TODAY. RADAR SHOWED THUNDER- STORMS NEAR COTULA NORTHWARD TO WEST OF SAN ANTONIO WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT IN THOSE COUNTIES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THOSE COUNTIES UNTILL 900 PM TODAY. PERSONS IN THOSE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Feb 1, 3:19 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
TXZ040-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 320 PM CST THU FEB 1 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR DEWITT... GOLIAD...JACKSON...LAVACA AND VICTORIA COUNTIES... AT 315 PM CST VICTORIA RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF SAN SABA TO COTULLA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO LA SALLE COUNTY NORTHWEST OF COTULLA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN THE CROSSROADS SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. 02
Special weather statement, Feb 1, 4:38 PM CST, 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.