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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 18, 1992San Patricio County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1992, 1:17 PM CDT for San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1992, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1992, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County San Patricio County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 18, 1:20 PM CDT	Tornado F1	San Patricio, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRP 181817
TORCRP
TXC409-181915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
117 PM CDT MON MAY 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...SAN PATRICIO COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.
 
 
AT 115 PM CDT SAN PATRICIO SHERIFF REPORT A TORNADO ON THE GROUND
4 MILES EAST OF ODEM MOVING TO THE N AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 4:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	3 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1992 Every tornado warning in 1992 Tornadoes in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.