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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 1998, 8:38 PM CST for Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- Feb 18, 1998, 8:38 PM CST (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 1998, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 190238 RRA TORCRP TXC391-190345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 838 PM CST WED FEB 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN REFUGIO COUNTY AT 835 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTH OF REFUGIO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 77 ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF REFUGIO BY 9PM. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. COMMUNITIES SOUTHWEST OF MCFADDIN...TIVOLI AND AUSTWELL ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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 Feb 18, 8:10 PM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 8:10 PM CST, 28 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 810 PM CST WED FEB 18 1998 NO TIME TO TALK. WILL UPDATE VCT AREA WITH 40% POPS SOME SVR. WILL UPDATE CRP ZONES...WITH 30% POPS...SOME SVR FOR STORMS FIRING TO THE NW. WILL UPDATE LASALLE...MCMULLEN AND DUVAL WITH 30% CHC OF STORMS...SOME SVR BASED ON LATEST TRENDS AND BACKBUILDING INTO FRIO COUNTY. WEBB COUNTY LOOKS TO GET MISSED. COULD BE A LONG EVENING. JM...075
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 68 min |
| Feb 18, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 63 min |
| Feb 18, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 76 min |
| Feb 18, 9:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 57 min |
| Feb 18, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 66 min |
| Feb 18, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 44 min |
| Feb 18, 10:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 58 min |
| Feb 18, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio, Victoria | 50 min |
| Feb 18, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.