Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1990, 4:55 PM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1990, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 102157 TORCRP TXC297-102300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 455 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...LIVE OAK COUNTY AT 450 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SIGHTED BETWEEN GEORGE WEST AND THREE RIVERS IN LIVE OAK COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THAT AREA...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOU R BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 2:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ040>042-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 205 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI... AT 200 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF MATHIS IN WESTERN SAN PATRICIO COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS WEST AT 10 MPH. BOATERS AND CAMPERS ON LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND AND ADJACENT GULF WATERS. MARINE AND OTHER OUTDOOR INTERESTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON.
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.