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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

August 5, 1998McMullen County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1998, 7:12 PM CDT for McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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: Aug 5, 1998, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County McMullen County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 5, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 10:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	La Salle	3 hr
Aug 6, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Nueces	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.