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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

January 6, 1998Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1998, 4:08 PM CST for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 6, 1998, 4:08 PM CST (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Jan 6, 1998, 5:15 PM CST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Victoria County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 1998-01-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1989 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 1998-01-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1989 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

198 
WUUS1 KCRP 062209 RRA
SVRCRP
TXC469-062315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
408 PM CST TUE JAN 6 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY
 
AT 415 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF VICTORIA...OR 5 MILES WEST OF MISSION VALLEY. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT MISSION VALLEY AT 420
PM...AND NURSURY AT 425 PM CST.
 
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 6, 2:40 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 2:40 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
240 PM CST TUE JAN 6 1998

WV IMAGRY ILLUSTRATES LARGE PLUME OF MOISTURE OVER CNTRL-SE TX WITH
SHARP DRYING NOTED OUT WEST NR BIG BEND.  KCRP 88D SHOWS A FEW NARROW
STREAMS OF PRECIP MARCHING ACROSS OUR CNTRL COUNTIES AHD OF PAC FNTL
BNDRY.  PRECIP EVENT HAS BEEN WELL ADVERTISED KEEPING HEAVIEST RAINS
AND FLASH FLOODING NORTH OF THE AREA.  STILL CHC OF TSRA OVER ERN
COUNTIES THIS EVENING AS FNT MVS THRU.  PAC FNT WILL MV OFF THE COAST
LATE THIS AFTN/EARLY THIS EVENING BRINGING NWLY WINDS.  WINDS WILL
INCREASE TNGT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS WHEN COOL DRY AIR INTERACTS
WITH 65-70 DEG WATER.

M/C -RA CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL WED AS COOL NWLY FLOW IS OVERRUN BY
MOIST SWLY MID LVL FLOW.  THIS FLOW WILL BECOME WLY LATE IN THE DAY
WHEN CLOSED LOW MVS INTO CNTRL TX AND END RAIN CHC'S.  H85 LOW WILL
STRENGTHEN OVER ARKANSAS WED TO PRODUCE WINDY CONDITIONS OVER THE
COASTAL BEND.  CLEARING SKIES AND COOL TEMPS WILL PREVAIL WED NGT.

WRKZONES...
CRP/VCT
.TNGT...CLOUDY WITH A CHC OF EVENING SHRA/TSRA...BECMG BREEZY AND
COOLER.  (LCLY HVY RAIN VCT AREA)  WIND BECMG NW 15 TO 20 MPH.
.WED...M/C..WINDY AND COOL WITH CHC OF -RA.  NW WIND 15-25 MPH.
.WED NGT...CLEARING AND COOL.
.THURS...SUNNY.

LRD
.TNGT...CLOUDY WITH A CHC OF -RA.  NW WIND NR 15 MPH AND GUSTY.
.WED...M/C...BREEZY AND COOL.  NW WIND 15-20 MPH.
.WED NGT...CLEARING AND COOL.
.THURS...SUNNY.
.
PRELIMS...

CRP EU 053/063 040/060 3200
VCT EU 054/057 042 059 5200
LRD EU 050/058 044/058 2000

JM...075

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 6, 10:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPWebb56 min
Jan 6, 11:03 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningCRPWebb117 min
Jan 6, 4:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPGoliad56 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.