Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1998, 11:05 AM CST for Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Jan 22, 1998, 11:05 AM CST (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1998, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 Jan 22, 9:39 AM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 9:39 AM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 939 AM CST THU JAN 22 1998 UPPER TROUGH SPARKING ELEVATED...STRONG ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS. UPPER TROUGH IN WEST TEXAS WILL SWING ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SKIES WILL STAY CLOUDY AND WITH THE UPPER TROUGH MOVING ACROSS WILL NEED TO INCREASE RAIN CHANCES FOR MOST ZONES. DUE TO THE CLOUDY SKIES...COLD AIR ADVECTION NEED TO LOWER TEMPS OR HOLD THEM STEADY THIS AFTERNOON. BY TONIGHT UPPER TROUGH WILL BE EAST OF THE AREA AND A DRY NORTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPS AND IT WILL CAUSE SKIES TO CLEAR. CHANCES TO ZONES... VCT...CLOUDY...WINDY AND MUCH COOLER WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHRA AND TSRA. HIGH...LOW 50S. N WIND 15-25 MPH AND GUSTY. CRP...CLOUDY...WINDY AND MUCH COOLER WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHRA AND TSRA. HIGH...LOW 50S INLAND TO THE UPPER 50S COAST. N WIND 15- 25 MPH AND GUSTY. LRD...CLOUDY AND MUCH COOLER WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHRA AND A FEW TSRA. HIGH...MID 50S. N WIND 15-20 MPH AND GUSTY. LUNA...0074
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 32 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.