Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Jun 17, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Orange Grove, TX | Spotter and public report of dime sized hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 3875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 76 min |
| Jun 17, 7:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 90 min |
| Jun 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 90 min |
| Jun 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 10:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 119 min |
| Jun 17, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 4 hr |
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.