Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 90 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, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
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, 1.5 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, 7:50 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 7:50 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 750 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 NOT MUCH TIME FOR A DISCUSSION THIS EVENING WITH SVR WX ONGOING ACRS THE CWA. QUICK LOOK AT ADAP SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE INDICATES TSTMS ARE MOVING INTO AREAS OF MAX CONVERGENCE. 00Z CRP SOUNDING REVEALS ATMOSPHERE EXTREMELY SATURATED (PWAT 2.30 IN) WITH LTL CAP. GOING FCST WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND MENTION OF HVY RAIN LOOKS GOOD. SVR TSTM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10PM FOR ENTIRE CWA ALSO. NO CHGS NEEDED TO CURRENT ZONES. CNJ...85
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, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.