Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 1998, 11:52 AM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 22, 1998, 11:52 AM CDT (16:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1998, 12:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nueces County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 3430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
438 WFUS1 KCRP 221651 RRA TORCRP TXC355-221725- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1152 AM CDT TUE SEP 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NUECES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1225 PM CDT * AT 1155 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL SPOTTED A TORNADO NORTHEAST OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT... MOVING WEST 10 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF CALALLEN...AND ODEM ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. * 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. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Sep 22, 9:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 9:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 935 AM CDT TUE SEP 22 1998 CRP/DRT SOUNDINGS CONTINUE TO IMPLY A MOIST/UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVR THE CROSSROADS/COASTAL BEND AND A RELATIVELY DRY/STABLE ENVIRONMENT OVR THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS. HWR INSTABILITY AT CRP HAS INCREASED SGFNTLY TDA OVR YDA WITH CAPE...USING SHARP AND BASED ON THE CONSERVATIVE MEAN LOW LVL PARCEL...STILL ABV 2500 J/KG. EXPECT SEA BRZ TO TRIGGER SCT CONVECTION OVR THE COASTAL BEND/CROSSROADS THIS AFTN. SUGGEST INCRG POPS TO 30% OVR THE COASTAL BEND/CROSSROADS...20% OVR DUVAL/ MCMULLEN...AND NO POPS OVR WEBB/LA SALLE. NO OTR SGFNT CHGS. 87
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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.