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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 1996, 1:14 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 1996, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1996, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nueces County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 2005 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 201819 TORCRP TXC355-201915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 114 PM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN NUECES COUNTY AT 115 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO SOUTH OF FLOUR BLUFF AND EAST OF CHAPMAN RANCH. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. 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 AVAIVLABLE...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. COLE &
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.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 20, 10:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 10:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1000 AM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996 TSRA PRODUCING A TOR ACRS LIVE OAK CNTY ATTM MOVING TO THE SE SEEMS TO BE WKNG SOME. ALSO...SHRA ALG CST NR PORT ARANSAS PRODUCED FUNNEL CLOUDS. NO CHGS TO PREV FCST. JAC...71
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 9:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 64 min |
| Sep 20, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 65 min |
| Sep 20, 11:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 61 min |
| Sep 20, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 54 min |
| Sep 20, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 59 min |
| Sep 20, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.