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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 1990, 8:50 PM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1990, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1990, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1324 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 100151 TORCRP TXC025-100230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 850 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTH CENTRAL BEE COUNTY DPS AND BEE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF PETTUS AT 847 PM CDT IN NORTHERN BEE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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 DAS 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 4:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ040>042-092215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 415 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN KLEBERG...WESTERN NUECES AND JIM WELLS COUNTIES... AT 410 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED STRONG THUNDER- STORMS IN JIM WELLS...WESTERN NUECES AND WESTERN KLEBERG COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AS THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FUNNEL CLOUDS. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
TXZ040>042-092315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 515 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE COASTAL BEND... AT 510 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING IN THE COASTAL BEND FROM WEST OF A BEEVILLE TO KINGSVILLE LINE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DISSIPATE AS THEY MOVED NORTH AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT THROUGH SUNSET AS SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSBLE SMALL HAIL AND FUNNEL CLOUDS. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD SEPEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 7:57 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
TXZ040-100155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 755 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS APPROACHING LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES... AT 750 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALLS APPROACHING LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER ATASCOSA AND LASALLE COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN LIVE OAK AND BEE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 8:40 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
TXZ040-049-100239- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 839 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 AT 835 PM CDT VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A 15 MILE WIDE AREA FROM BELMONT TO JUST WEST OF YORKTOWN IN DEWITT COUNTY TO THREE RIVERS MOVING SOUTH NEAR 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS IN DEWITT COUNTY CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO GOLIAD COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. 05
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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.