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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 15, 1998Goliad County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 5:31 PM CDT for Goliad 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: Jun 15, 1998, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 64 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 22:34 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
Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Weesatche, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 701 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -484 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRP 152234 RRA
TORCRP
TXC175-152335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
531 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GOLIAD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 635 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR WEESATCHE... MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WEESATCHE AT 535 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...
DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. BEWARE
THE THREAT OF RISING WATER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	69 min
Jun 15, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Live Oak	58 min
Jun 15, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee	62 min
Jun 15, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	64 min
Jun 15, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	79 min
Jun 15, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad	76 min
Jun 15, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee	61 min
Jun 15, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	San Patricio	80 min
Jun 15, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	61 min
Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	64 min
Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	60 min
Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	70 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.