Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 16, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Calliham, TX | Numerous reports of power lines downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts along with small metal building being blown over. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 4110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
664 WUUS1 KCRP 162212 RRA SVRCRP TXC297-311-162310- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 510 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MCMULLEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WESTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 610 PM CDT * 510 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF CALLIHAM... MOVING NORTHEAST 5 TO 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SIMMONS AT 520 PM CDT WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 Aug 16, 2:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 205 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 1998 EWX FOR TONIGHT: COASTAL BEND...P-C 20% CHANCE SHRA/TSRA. SE WIND 5- 10. CROSSROADS...PARTLY TO M-C 30% SHRA/TSRA. SE TO S WIND 5-10. RIO GRANDE PLAINS...PARTLY TO M-C 30% SHRA/TSRA. SE WIND NEAR 10. PRELIMS: CRP B-E/B 078/093 077/093 077 2323 NGP 081/090 080 090 080 VCT T/B 076/089 075/092 076 3523 ALI 078/094 076/095 077 LRD B-E/B 078/094 078/095 079 3332 DISC: SEABREEZE FNT ENHANCING WIDELY SCT SHRA ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL AREAS EARLY THIS AFT FM NQI SWD TOWARD BRO...WHILE OLD OUTFLOW STRETCHED ACROSS NRN/NERN FA IS RESULTING IN SCT SHRA/TSRA. AXIS OF DEFORMATION...IDENTIFIED ON H7 ANALYSIS AND DEPICTED IN THIS MORN'S MODELS IS ALSO PLAYING A ROLE IN THE GENERATION OF SHRA AND TSRA FM HDO TO CLL. ETA MODEL SINKS THIS FEATURE SLOWLY SWD OVR THE NXT 24H BEFORE RETREATING NWD...WHILE THE NGM RETAINS IT ACROSS N TX THRU THE CYCLE. MUCH UNCERTAINTY ALSO EXISTS WITH THE ETA/NGM DEPICTIONS OF THE MEXICAN UPR LO(S). ETA RETAINS A BETTER DEFINED SYSTEM AND STRONGER VORT SITUATED ACROSS NE MEXICO/DRT AREA. NOTHING REALLY NEW TO CONTEND W/ THIS FCST...TOMORROW SHUD BE A REPEAT OF TODAY W/ THE OVERALL PTN TO REMAIN RATHER UNCHANGED. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE/INSTABILITY TO REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS S TX. PWS FCST TO REMAIN ABV 2.00 INCHES ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND COMBINED W/ WEAK DYNAMICS MUCH OF THE FA SHUD CONT TO SEE SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE POPS THIS FP. AREAS THAT RECEIVE BEST CHANCE OF RAFL WL BE THOSE LOCS WHERE OUTFLOW CAN INFLUENCE. MEAN RHS RANGING FM 50-75% POINT TOWARD SKIES VARYING FM PARTLY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT AND AGAIN ON MONDAY. PRES GRAD IS WEAK ACROSS THE STATE SO LGT WINDS AT NIGHT AND LGT INCRNG TO MOD ON MON. SRP -77-
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.