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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 1992, 11:26 AM CST for Refugio County, San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 1992, 11:26 AM CST (17:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 1992, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Refugio County, TX, 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 48 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 011728 TORCRP TXC391-409-011800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1126 AM CST WED APR 1 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN REFUGIO COUNTY...SAN PATRICIO COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG THE REFUGIO/SAN PATRICIO COUNTY LINE 9 MILES NORTH OF SINTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS SPOTTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR F.M. HIGHWAY 796 NEAR WEST ST. PAUL IN NORTHERN SAN PATRICIO AT 1115 AM CST. THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BEE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1130 AM CST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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 46 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 43 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, 10:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 35 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.