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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 21, 1998, 4:45 PM CST for Live Oak County, McMullen County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 21, 1998, 4:45 PM CST (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1998, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
299 WFUS1 KCRP 212248 RRA TORCRP TXC311-297-212330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 445 PM CST SAT FEB 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHEAST MCMULLEN COUNTY...NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY... AT 445 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF TILDEN AND WILL APPROACH THE CHOKE CANYON AREA AS IT MOVES EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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 21, 3:10 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 3:10 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 310 PM CST SAT FEB 21 1998 A VERY ACTIVE WX PATTERN CONTINUES TO UNFOLD ACROSS THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON. LOOK LIKE THE EVENT IS NOW UNDERWAY AND SPC HAS JUST COME OUT WITH TOR WATCH 52. THIS COVERS THE ENTIRE CWA. AFTER STORMS MOVE THROUGH TONIGHT THINGS WILL CLR FAIRLY RAPIDLY BEHIND THE SYSTEM ON SUN. WITH A W/NW FLOW AT H5 DRY WX PATTERN WILL AGAIN TAKE OVER WITH SUNNY DRY DAYS AND CLEAR COOL NIGHTS. THEN NEXT IN THE NEVER ENDING SERIES OF WEST COAST SYSTEMS WILL ARRIVE BY MID WEEK WITH INCREASING PCPN CHCS AGAIN. STRONG S/W CONTINUES TO HEAD E/SE AND WILL MOVE ACROSS LATER TONIGHT. SFC LOW WILL DEVELOP TO THE S CRP AND MOVE NE TO OFF THE COAST OF GLS BY 12Z SUN AND CONTINUE NEWRD FROM THERE. ADAP SMC INDICATES A BULLSEYE OVER THE CWA FROM THE COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS TO VCT AND LIS HAVE FALLEN TO -4 TO -6 ACROSS THE LOWER VALLEY. VIS SATELLITE PIX SHOW BREAKS W/SW OF CRP AND THIS COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL HEATING TO HELP DESTABILIZE THINGS FURTHER. WILL CONTINUE WIND ADVSRY UNTIL 9 PM FOR CRP/VCT. LRD CAN BE DROPPED. NEED TO MAINTAIN SCA ON THIS PKG. ALL NECESSARY PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN UPDATED. .TONIGHT...CLOUDY WITH AN 60 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CRP...80% VCT...SOME LIKELY SEVERE. SE WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY CRP...E WIND 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY VCT. //LRD// 40% CHC OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING THEN DECREASING CLOUDINESS LATE. S WIND 10 TO 15 MPH...SHIFTING TO THE W/NW AT 10 TO 15 MPH BY MIDNIGHT. .SUNDAY...BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY AND BREEZY. W/NW WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY. .SUNDAY NIGHT...CLEAR. .MONDAY...SUNNY. CRP UU 052/073 048/077 054 6100 NGP 058/073 052/075 058 ALI UU 050/073 048/078 054 6100 LRD UU 052/075 052/079 055 4100 VCT UU 047/071 048/074 053 8100 MSL..73..
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 2:45 PM CST, 2 hours before
TXZ229>234-239>247-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 245 PM CST SAT FEB 21 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR ALL OF THE COASTAL BEND...RIO GRANDE PLAINS...AND VICTORIA AREAS. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE NUECES...KLEBERG...SAN PATRICIO...JIM WELLS...LIVE OAK... BEE...REFUGIO...ARANSAS...DUVAL...WEBB...LA SALLE...MCMULLEN... GOLIAD...CALHOUN...AND VICTORIA. A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN MEXICO TO THE SOUTH OF THE BIG BEND AREA WILL MOVE EAST TOWARDS SOUTH TEXAS. THIS SYSTEM COMBINED WITH A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. AS OF 240 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO SEVERE WEATHER...HOWEVER A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTH OF COTULLA TO HONDO. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH AND WAS ALSO DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTH TOWARDS LAREDO. OTHER LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM FREER TO GEORGE WEST TO NORTH OF VICTORIA. IN ADDITION...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTH TEXAS...AND A WIND ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 2:45 PM CST, 2 hours before
TXZ229>234-239>247-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 245 PM CST SAT FEB 21 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR ALL OF THE COASTAL BEND...RIO GRANDE PLAINS...AND VICTORIA AREAS. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE NUECES...KLEBERG...SAN PATRICIO...JIM WELLS...LIVE OAK... BEE...REFUGIO...ARANSAS...DUVAL...WEBB...LA SALLE...MCMULLEN... GOLIAD...CALHOUN...AND VICTORIA. A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN MEXICO TO THE SOUTH OF THE BIG BEND AREA WILL MOVE EAST TOWARDS SOUTH TEXAS. THIS SYSTEM COMBINED WITH A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. AS OF 240 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NO SEVERE WEATHER...HOWEVER A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTH OF COTULLA TO HONDO. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH AND WAS ALSO DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTH TOWARDS LAREDO. OTHER LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM FREER TO GEORGE WEST TO NORTH OF VICTORIA. IN ADDITION...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTH TEXAS...AND A WIND ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 5:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 50 min |
| Feb 21, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 50 min |
| Feb 21, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 90 min |
| Feb 21, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak | 77 min |
| Feb 21, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 4:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval | 47 min |
| Feb 21, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 50 min |
| Feb 21, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 58 min |
| Feb 21, 5:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 42 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.