Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 1997, 3:15 PM CST for Goliad County, Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. 3 reports 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
- Dec 23, 1997, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 1997, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Goliad County, TX, Victoria County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 3:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Goliad, TX | NWS Spotter report of structural damage to a chimney due to strong thunderstorm wind gust. |
| Dec 23, 3:30 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Goliad, TX | NWS Spotter report of golfball sized hail. |
| Dec 23, 3:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Victoria, TX | Sheriff report of an 18-wheeler truck overturned on U.S. Highway 77 by strong thunderstorm wind gust. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 53 min |
| Dec 23, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 34 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.