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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 1992, 10:55 AM CST for San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 1992, 10:55 AM CST (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 1992, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 35 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, 4.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 011655 TORCRP TXC409-011730- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1055 AM CST WED APR 1 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SAN PATRICIO COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG THE BEE AND SAN PATRICIO COUNTY LINE ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF SINTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. 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, Apr 1, 9:40 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ040-011540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 940 AM CST WED APR 1 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LIVE OAK COUNTY... AT 930 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF GEORGE WEST IN LIVE OAK COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS EMBEDDED IN AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND LIGHT RAIN FROM 25 MILES WEST OF FREER TO EAST OF VICTORIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSING DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... BREIF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTMNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 1, 9:43 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ040-011640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TIME CODE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 940 AM CST WED APR 1 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LIVE OAK COUNTY... AT 930 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF GEORGE WEST IN LIVE OAK COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS EMBEDDED IN AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND LIGHT RAIN FROM 25 MILES WEST OF FREER TO EAST OF VICTORIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSING DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... BREIF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 68 min |
| Apr 1, 10:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 11:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Refugio, San Patricio | 34 min |
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.