Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1991, 12:21 PM CDT for San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1991, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1991, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Patricio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 2178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 071723 TORCRP TXC409-071800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1221 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SAN PATRICIO COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. ...TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GROUND HEADED TOWARDS PORTLAND... A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PORTLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT ON THE GROUND NEAR THE REYNOLDS PLANT HEADING TOWARDS PORTLAND. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT INDICATED. 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 AS 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, Jun 7, 11:41 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
TXZ040-042-041-071745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1138 AM CDT FRI JUN 7 1991 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE COASTAL BEND... AT 1135 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOPE ACROSS MUCH OF THE COASTAL BEND. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM SAN ANTONIO TO THE CORPUS CHRISTI METROPOLITAN AREA. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED WITH THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE COASTAL BEND SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR...ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. ALL MARINE INTERESTS ON BAYS...INTRACOASTAL WATERWAYS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR DUE TO ROUGH SEAS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:43 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
TXZ040-049-071830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 1135 AM CDT FRI JUN 7 1991 AT 1125 AM CDT CALHOUN SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT RECEIVED REPORT FROM THE PARK AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT THAT A WATERSPOUT HAD BEEN SIGHTED IN THE MATAGORDA BAY NEAR PORT OCONNOR AND HAD RECEDED BACK INTO THE CLOUDS. VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ALONG THE COAST NEAR PORT LAVACA AND PORT OCONNOR...NEAR GOLIAD TO RUNGE...AND BETWEEN GANADO AND EL CAMPO. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEEN MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS AND MARINERS IN CALHOUN COUNTY CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. 03 FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 01
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:47 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
TXZ040-049-071830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX 1135 AM CDT FRI JUN 7 1991 AT 1125 AM CDT CALHOUN SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT RECEIVED REPORT FROM THE PARK AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT THAT A WATERSPOUT HAD BEEN SIGHTED IN THE MATAGORDA BAY NEAR PORT OCONNOR AND HAD RECEDED BACK INTO THE CLOUDS. VICTORIA RADAR INDICATED A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ALONG THE COAST NEAR PORT LAVACA AND PORT OCONNOR...NEAR GOLIAD TO RUNGE...AND BETWEEN GANADO AND EL CAMPO. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEEN MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS AND MARINERS IN CALHOUN COUNTY CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. 03
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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.