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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

February 1, 1998Kleberg County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 1, 1998, 9:15 AM CST for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 75 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
Feb 1, 1998, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
Expired
Feb 1, 1998, 10:30 AM CST
In force
75 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 15:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 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 1998-02-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 673 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 1998-02-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 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.

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 Feb 1, 9:00 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 9:00 AM CST, 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 1, 10:26 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg94 min
Feb 1, 11:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPWebb73 min
Feb 1, 12:02 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningCRPWebb118 min
Feb 1, 1:43 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval3 hr
Feb 1, 2:25 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningCRPJim Wells3 hr
Feb 1, 2:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningCRPKleberg3 hr

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.