Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 5:13 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1996, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1724 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 16, 2:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 240 PM CDT MON SEP 16 1996 DISCUSSION...KCRP-88D INDICATING CNVCTN OVER PORTIONS OF THE NRN CWA. ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE DEVELOPING IN A WEAK DEFORMATION ZONE IN THE WIND FIELD AND PROPAGATING NEWD ALONG AN AXIS OF SFC MOISTURE CNVGNC WHERE MAX VALUES ARE LOCATED OVR SE TX. WL MENTION EARLY EVE ISOLATED POPS FOR VCT ZONES AND ADD EARLY MORNING CLOUDINESS TO BOTH CRP AND VCT AREAS. 12Z ETA MODEL TIME CROSS-SECTIONS DEPICT 40-50% MID-LEVEL RH VALUES ACROSS THE FA AND FEEL THAT AFTN CNVCTN WL BE LIMITED TO ISOLATED AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT ALONG BNDRYS GENERATED THROUGH SFC HTG AND MOISTURE GRADIENTS (DEW POINT...CRP 75..VCT 81). SEABREEZE INTERACTION WL BE AN INFLUENCE TOWARD THE END OF THE FCST PERIOD. PROGRESSIVE UPPER WAVE PATTERN OF WRN TROF-CNTRL RDG-ERN TROF CONFIGURATION ACROSS THE U.S. TRANSLATES EWD THROUGH THE EXTENDED ALLOWING FOR AN INCREASE RAFL hPOTENTIAL BY THE WEEKS END. OTRW...NO MAJOR CHANGES ARE ANTICIPATED. THE FORECASTED NUMBERS ARE NEXT... CRP 078/095 077/094 076 0102 VCT 075/094 076/094 075 1102 LRD 077/098 076/097 077 0002 BML...76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 67 min |
| Sep 16, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee | 52 min |
| Sep 16, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 42 min |
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.