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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 6, 1997La Salle County, Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1997, 3:22 PM CDT for La Salle County, Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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
Jun 6, 1997, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1997, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties La Salle County, TX, Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 1997-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2314 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 1997-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 2:49 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:49 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
245 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997

ATMOSPHERE REMAINS UNSTABLE ACROSS THE REGION.  LOOKED LIKE
CONVECTION WOULD BEGIN TO FIRE ONCE CONVEC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 3:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPWebb3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every 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.