Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 12, 1998, 8:11 PM CST for Duval County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Feb 12, 1998, 8:11 PM CST (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 1998, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duval County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 8:30 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Freer, TX |
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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 12, 7:45 PM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 7:45 PM CST, 26 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 745 PM CST THU FEB 12 1998 BUSY EVENING WITH SEVERAL SVR WARNINGS STILL ACTIVE. NASTY STORM IN BEE COUNTY THAT HAS PRODUCED GOLF-BALL HAIL THAT IS MOVING INTO REFUGIO COUNTY ATTM...ANOTHER STORM IN LA SALLE COUNTY MOVING INTO MCMULLEN AND DUVAL THAT ALSO HAS PRODUCED GOLF-BALL HAIL. STORMS WILL CONTINUE AHEAD OF TROF AXIS WHICH IS LOCATED NEAR LRD-COT-SAT LINE. ONLY CHANGE IS TO UP POPS FOR CRP TO 30 FOR THIS EVENING. PSS...82
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 12, 7:40 PM CST, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
740 PM CST THU FEB 12 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0615 PM PAWNEE TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
02/12/98 BEE REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER
0630 PM TULETA TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
02/12/98 BEE REPORTED BY SHERIFF DEPT.
0655 PM 4 SW LOS ANGELES TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/12/98 LA SALLE REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER
0700 PM 10 NE BEEVILLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/12/98 BEE ALONG HIGHWAY 59
REPORTED BY SHERIFF DEPT.
SPAULDINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 54 min |
| Feb 12, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee | 51 min |
| Feb 12, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 60 min |
| Feb 12, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 32 min |
| Feb 12, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio | 63 min |
| Feb 12, 7:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Refugio | 68 min |
| Feb 12, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 59 min |
| Feb 12, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 67 min |
| Feb 12, 9:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, San Patricio | 67 min |
| Feb 12, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.