Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 12, 1998, 6:24 PM CST for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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, 6:24 PM CST (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 1998, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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, 7:00 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Beeville, 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 130024 RRA TORCRP TXC025-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 624 PM CST THU FEB 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN BEE COUNTY AT 620 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN NORTHERN BEE COUNTY 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PAWNEE TO THE EAST OF HIGHWAY 673. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TOWNS OF PETTUS AND NORMANNA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING TOR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The 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, 6:30 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, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 64 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.