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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

July 16, 1990Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1990, 4:44 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1990, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Nueces 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2457 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.7

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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, Jul 16, 1:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ040-042-041-161945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
139 PM CDT MON JUL 16 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BEEVILLE...

AT 135 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CORPUS CHRISTI WAS
INDICATING A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM SAN ANTONIO
TO HOUSTON TO 160 MILES EAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI THEN SOUTH TO NEAR
BROWNSVILLE THEN WEST TO THE MEXICAN BOARDER. THE HEAVIEST
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEEVILLE. OTHER HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY TO
REFUGIO COUNTY.

MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE COASTAL BEND SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

ALL MARINE INTEREST ON LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI AND THE COASTAL WATERS
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE
HARBOR IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH TEXAS...LIVE OAK...BEE...REFUGIO...SAN
PATRICIO...NUECES...NORTHERN DUVAL AND NORTHERN JIM WELLS COUNTIES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ040-042-041-161945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
139 PM CDT MON JUL 16 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BEEVILLE...

AT 135 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CORPUS CHRISTI WAS
INDICATING A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM SAN ANTONIO
TO HOUSTON TO 160 MILES EAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI THEN SOUTH TO NEAR
BROWNSVILLE THEN WEST TO THE MEXICAN BOARDER. THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEEVILLE. OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY TO
REFUGIO COUNTY.

MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE COASTAL BEND SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

ALL MARINE IN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 2:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee3 hr

Nearby

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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.