Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 1999, 7:19 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 22, 1999, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1999, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Alice, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS1 KCRP 230021 TORCRP TXC249-230045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 719 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ALICE...PREMONT...SAN DIEGO * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 719 PM CDT...ALICE POLICE OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER ALICE...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER L OW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR TEXAS. A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT
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 Aug 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
300 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999
BEST FORECAST TOOL RIGHT NOW IS RADAR...FORGET THE SHORT-TERM MODELS.
AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT BRET WILL SPARE CORPUS WITH A DIRECT
HIT. MAY GO AS FAR NORTH AS BAFFIN BAY...BUT LOOKS EVEN SOUTH OF
THAT. WILL WAIT FOR HPC ON WIND FORECAST...BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WINDS
CAN BE DECREASED AT THIS TIME. WILL LIKELY NEED THE HURRICANE
WARNING THOUGH FOR THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY FOR THE SOUTH. EXPECT
CATAGOICAL RAINS THROUGH 1ST TWO PERIODS...WITH POPS ONLY SLIGHTLY
LOWER EAST AS BRET MOVES INLAND. BRET WILL LIKELY BE AROUND AT
LEAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT OVER THE WEST...SO WILL ONLY LOWER
POPS EASTERN SECTIONS. WILL LIKELY KEEP THE FORECAST DRY FOR NOW ON
SUNDAY.
MARINE...WILL FOLLOW CLOSLY WITH HPCS WIND FORECAST...DIMINISHING
WINDS THROUGH THE PERIOD.
UPDATE ON AFD WILL ONLY OCCUR IF CHANGE IS MADE TO WARNINGS/WATCHES.
CRP TT 077/082 075/086 075 ++97
NGP 078/083 078/086 078
VCT TT 075/086 075/089 075 9975
LRD TT 074/092 074/092 075 9++8
COT TT 075/085 076/086 076 8++8
.CRP...HURRICANE WARNING BETWEEN BAFFIN BAY AND PORT OCONNOR.
FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TXZ229>234 AND TXZ240>247
THROUGH MONDAY.
HIGH WIND WARNING FOR TXZ239>241 AND TXZ229>234 FOR TONIGHT.
TORNADO WATCH ALL ZONES EXCEPT WEBB AND LASALLE COUNTIES TIL
2 AM CDT.
86/GW (LAND)...72/AP (MAR) ET AL...In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ230>234-240>247-230700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 200 PM CDT SUN AUG 22 1999 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS UNTIL 2 AM MONDAY MORNING. THE WATCH IS PRIMARILY CONCENTRATED OVER THE COASTAL BEND...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...KLEBERG...NUECES...SAN PATRICIO...REFUGIO... ARANSAS...JIM WELLS...DUVAL...LASALLE...LIVE OAK...BEE...GOLIAD... VICTORIA...AND CALHOUN...AS WELL AS THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. DUE TO THE APPROACH OF THE DANGEROUS HURRICANE BRET...ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES IN THE OUTER HURRICANE SQUALLS...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...FLOODING...AND DANGEROUS WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS HURRICANE BRET MOVES INLAND. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS DURING THIS DANGEROUS HURRICANE SITUATION. LAMARRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Aug 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, Refugio | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 4 hr |
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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.