Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 1996, 2:17 PM CDT for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 1996, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Berclair, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 3593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 18, 9:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 9:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 943 AM CDT WED SEP 18 1996 SHOWERS AND TSTMS ALREADY UNDER WAY BETWEEN CRP AND VCT. PRECIP WILL CONTINUE DUE TO SEVERAL FACTORS...DIFFLUENT UPPER FLOW... SEA-BREEZE FRONT...DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE OUT OF MEXICO AND INTO TEXAS LATER TODAY. CRP MORNING SOUNDING VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE WITH A PW OF 2.27 INCHES...LI OF -9 AND CAPE OF 4500. ALL THIS POINTS TO THE POTENTIAL FORz HEAVY RAIN ESPECIALLY FOR THE VCT AREA. WILL INSERT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN VCT AREA AND INCREASE POPS TO 50 PERCENT. REST OF PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD WITH NO OTHER CHNGES NEEDED AT THIS TIME. LUNA...0074
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 18, 9:22 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
920 AM CDT WED SEP 18 1996 ...CORRECTED TYPE OF REPORT
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
605 PM TYNAN TX TORNADO.
09/16/96 BEE SPOTTER AND PUBLIC REPORT
OF A TORNADO WITH WIND
DAMAGE TO SEVERAL AREA TREES.
630 PM MATHIS TX 60 MPH WIND GUST.
09/16/96 SAN PATRICIO NWS SKYWARN SPOTTER ESTIMATE
OF THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST
: WITH REPORT OF A CONTINUOUS
ROARING SOUND.The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 10:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Victoria | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.