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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 14, 1998Kleberg County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1998, 5:09 PM CDT for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 14, 1998, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kleberg County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 1998-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2215 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 1998-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
2215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPNueces, San Patricio64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.