Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 4:19 PM CDT for Bee County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 17, 1997, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm 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 93 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
- 2899 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
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 17, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 240 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH MODIFIED SOUNDING PRODUCING A CAPE OF NEAR 6500...LI OF -12 AND CAP OF 1.0. THIS UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL KEEP TSRA GOING WELL INTO TONIGHT. TSRA WILL SLIDE INTO THE VCT AREA BY 4 PM AND CONTINUE TO SLIDE SOUTHWARD HOWEVER AT THE SAME TIME OTHER SCATTERED STRONG TSRA WILL BUILD FURTHER TO THE WEST. WITH THIS TYPE UNSTABLE ENVIROMENT..SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH FLASH FLOODING FOR VCT ZONES SO WILL KEEP WATCH UP TONIGHT. AFTER TONIGHT MAIN UPPER LOW PUSHES NORTHEAST TO THE OHIO VALLEY HOWEVER WEAK SFC TROUGH REMAINS IN THE AREA ALONG WITH MESOSCALE BOUNDRIES FROM TODAYS STORMS...WILL NEED TO KEEP LOW POPS IN THE ZONES THE NEXT FEW DAYS. DUE TO THE HIGH TEMPS AND DEWPOINTS...HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN PARTS OF SOUTH TEXAS. ZONES... VCT 076/094 077/095 4322 CRP 076/095 076/095 3222 NGP 080/090 080/090 UPPER 90S INLAND A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE LRD 077/101 077/101 3121 SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE LUNA...0074
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 10:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-512-171945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1043 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 4 PM FOR BEE...CALHOUN...GOLIAD... REFUGIO AND VICTORIA COUNTIES... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 4 PM. A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF SAN ANTONIO TO HOUSTON WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND MAY AFFECT THE COUNTIES IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH. THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT THIS TIME THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CORPUS CHRISTI AND LAREDO METROPOLITAN AREAS. THE STORMS COULD BACK BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE FOR COUNTIES OUTSIDE THE WATCH AREA. DUE TO THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AREA WIDE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WOULD CREATE FLOODING OF LOW-WATER CROSSINGS IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. LOCAL STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS FROM LAREDO TO CORPUS CHRISTI AND VICTORIA SHOULD REMAIN AWARE OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION TODAY AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. LUNA
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 10:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ229>234-239>247-512-171945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1043 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 4 PM FOR BEE...CALHOUN...GOLIAD... REFUGIO AND VICTORIA COUNTIES... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 4 PM. A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF SAN ANTONIO TO HOUSTON WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND MAY AFFECT THE COUNTIES IN OR NEAR TO THE WATCH. THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT THIS TIME THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CORPUS CHRISTI AND LAREDO METROPOLITAN AREAS. THE STORMS COULD BACK BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE FOR COUNTIES OUTSIDE THE WATCH AREA. DUE TO THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AREA WIDE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WOULD CREATE FLOODING OF LOW-WATER CROSSINGS IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. LOCAL STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS FROM LAREDO TO CORPUS CHRISTI AND VICTORIA SHOULD REMAIN AWARE OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION TODAY AND BE <PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. LUNA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 66 min |
| Jun 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.