Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 34
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 16, 1998, 3:15 AM CST for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1998, 3:15 AM CST (09:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1998, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Aransas County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Bee County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Duval County, TX, Frio County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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.
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 51 min |
| Feb 16, 5:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 57 min |
| Feb 16, 6:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 30 min |
| Feb 16, 6:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1998
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.