Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1999, 1:31 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 26, 1999, 1:31 PM CDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1999, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 1709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 26, 10:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 10:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1000 AM CDT MON APR 26 1999 STRONG/SEVERE WEATHER IN PROGRESS. JUST ISSUED SVR FOR BEE COUNTY...A CLUSTER OF TSTMS WITH DIME SIZE HAIL. SQUALL LINE LOCATED ATTM FROM COT TO SAT TO AUS. SOME CLEARING BEHIND THE SQUALL LINE...HOWEVER THE FRONT IS STILL WELL OUT TO THE WEST SO RAIN CHANCES NOT DONE YET. WILL TWEAK POPS FOR CRP...MOST LIKELY DROP POPS FOR LRD. WILL LEAVE VCT AREA AS IS...INCLUDING MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERE TSTMS. WILL ALSO MAKE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS FOR WINDS. MARINE FORECAST LOOKS GOOD ATTM. PSS...82/GW...86
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 26, 9:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
946 AM CDT MON APR 26 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
941 AM SKIDMORE TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/26/99 BEELocal storm report, Apr 26, 9:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
946 AM CDT MON APR 26 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
941 AM SKIDMORE TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/26/99 BEEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 10:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 12:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 32 min |
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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.