Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

April 2, 1997Bee County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1997, 1:23 PM CST for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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: Apr 2, 1997, 1:23 PM CST (19:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 1997, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Bee County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1013 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRP 021925 RRA
SVRCRP
TXC025-022000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
123 PM CST WED APR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN BEE COUNTY
 
AT 120 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BEEVILLE JUST SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF PAWNEE. LARGE HAIL UP TO
GOLF BALL SIZE AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS
IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 181 VERY
NEAR OR JUST NORTH OF PETTUS BY 145 PM.   REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER.h..
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 Apr 2, 9:33 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 9:33 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
930 AM CST WED APR 02 1997

ONLY CHANGE...LOWER MAX TEMPS IN LRD TO LOWER 70S...CRP TO MID 70S
INLAND.  ADJUST WIND DIRECTION TO EAST AND SOUTHEAST ALL AREAS AS
MAIN WARM FNT STILL TO THE SOUTH NR BRO.  INGREDIENTS ARE DEFINITELY
PRESENT FOR HVY RAIN EVENT THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT.  14Z SFC ANALYSIS
PLACES MOISTURE AXIS FROM CRP-SAT-SPS WITH MOIST EASTERLY FLOW OF 10-
15KTS.  WINDS AT H85 ARE ALSO GOOD FOR HVY RAIN...SOUTHERLY 20-25KTS.
H7 LVL WAS DRY OVERNIGHT HOWEVER 88D VAD WINDS REVEAL THIS LYR IS
MOISTENING UP AS TARGETS ARE RETURNING.  THIS CORRESPONDS WITH 00Z
GRIDDED ETA TIME SECTION FCST OF 70 PERCENT RH BY NOON TODAY.  THE
ATMOS IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE...PWS 1.30 FCST TO INCREASE TO 1.60 BY
00Z TODAY.  LI'S ARE -5...WITH VIRTUALLY NO CAP.  WBZERO IS ALSO LOW
AT 8300FT INDICATIVE OF HAIL POTENTIAL IN THE STRONGER CONVECTION.
SHARP CONFIGURED EASTERLY STORM MOTIONS PRODUCES GOOD EASTERLY STORM
RELATIVE INFLOW OF 30KTS.

SWLY FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING A DISTURBANCE ACROSS S TX THIS AFTN AND
TONIGHT.  AGREE WITH EWX MIDSHIFT DISCUSSION...OF SIGNIFICANT MCS
DEVELOPMENT SOME WHERE IN THE HILL COUNTRY OR HWY 90 CORRIDOR...WHICH
MAY ENCOUMPASS ALL OF THE COASTAL BEND TONIGHT.  VVELS INCREASE
DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS DIFLUENCE INCREASES AND LFQ OF H25 JET
NOSES IN FROM THE SW.  GIVEN THE ABV PARAMETERS WILL LEAVE FFA IN FOR
TODAY AND TONIGHT.  WE ONLY NEED 2.00 INCHES OF RAIN TO CAUSE
PROBLEMS FOR VCT...WHILE THE CRP AREA NEEDS 4.00 INCHES BEFORE
FLOODING WOULD BECOME A PROBLEM.

JM...075

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 10:54 AM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED FROM SUNDAYS (3/30) EVENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1055 AM CST WED APR 2 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE(CST)  ....COUNTY LOCATION....

930 AM     FREER                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/97   DUVAL

930 AM     FREER                     TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/30/97   DUVAL                          ROOF BLOWN OFF TRAILER

                                          3 LIGHT TOWERS BLOWN DOWN

                                          NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN

                                          TELEPHONE LINES SNAPPED
                                          GARAGE COLLAPSED

1140 AM .   RICARDO                   TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/30/97   KLEBERG                        60 MPH WIND GUSTS

Local storm report, Apr 2, 10:55 AM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED FROM SUNDAYS (3/30) EVENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1055 AM CST WED APR 2 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE(CST)  ....COUNTY LOCATION....

930 AM     FREER                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/97   DUVAL

930 AM     FREER                     TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/30/97   DUVAL                          ROOF BLOWN OFF TRAILER

                                          3 LIGHT TOWERS BLOWN DOWN

                                          NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN

                                          TELEPHONE LINES SNAPPED
                                          GARAGE COLLAPSED

1140 AM    RICARDO                   TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/30/97   KLEBERG                        60 MPH WIND GUSTS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 2:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	3 hr
Apr 2, 4:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad, Victoria	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.