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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 13, 1994Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1994, 2:06 PM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1994, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1994, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Live Oak County, TX

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, May 13, 12:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 12:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 1:19 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
120 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

1252 PM CDT SHERIFF DEPT REPORTED TORNADO TOUCH DOWN NEAR COUNTY ROAD
            122 AND FARM ROAD 530 NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF VInENNA.
            TRAILER HOUSE WAS DESTROYED...POWER LINES DOWN AND
            DEBRIS COVER ROADWAY. (LAVACA COUNTY)

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Local storm report, May 13, 1:20 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VICTORIA TX
120 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

1252 PM CDT SHERIFF DEPT REPORTED TORNADO TOUCH DOWN NEAR COUNTY ROAD
            122 AND FARM ROAD 530 NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF VIENNA.
            TRAILER HOUSE WAS DESTROYED...POWER LINES DOWN AND
            DEBRIS COVER ROADWAY. (LAVACA COUNTY)

05

Special weather statement, May 13, 2:01 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

TXZ231-232-132000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
201 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BEE AND LIVE OAK COUNTIES UNTIL
8:00 PM CDT...

AT 140 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM COTULLA TO SAN ANTONIO TO HOUSTON TO CORPUS
CHRISTI AND BACK TO COTULLA. THESE SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS IN THE WEST
HALF OF LIVE OAK COUNTY AT THIS TIME.

Special weather statement, May 13, 2:03 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

TXZ231-232-132000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
201 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BEE AND LIVE OAK COUNTIES UNTIL
8:00 PM CDT...

AT 140 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM COTULLA TO SAN ANTONIO TO HOUSTON TO CORPUS
CHRISTI AND BACK TO COTULLA. THESE SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN rHOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS IN THE WEST
HALF OF LIVE OAK COUNTY AT THIS TIME.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Live Oak	60 min
May 13, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee	68 min
May 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, San Patricio	2 hr
May 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Nueces	62 min
May 13, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	103 min
May 13, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg	103 min

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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.