Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1998, 2:19 PM CST for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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 16, 1998, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1998, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 16, 2:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Goliad, TX | Public report of quarter sized hail on highway 183. |
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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 51 min |
| Feb 16, 5:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 57 min |
| Feb 16, 6:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 30 min |
| Feb 16, 6:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 52 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.