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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 1996, 5:53 PM CDT for Bee County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Sep 16, 1996, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bee County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Tynan, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1724 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 162253 TORCRP TXC025-162345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 553 PM CDT MON SEP 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BEE COUNTY AT 555 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEEVILLE ON HIGHWAY 59. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE TOWN OF BEEVILLE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADOX...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
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 16, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 240 PM CDT MON SEP 16 1996 DISCUSSION...KCRP-88D INDICATING CNVCTN OVER PORTIONS OF THE NRN CWA. ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE DEVELOPING IN A WEAK DEFORMATION ZONE IN THE WIND FIELD AND PROPAGATING NEWD ALONG AN AXIS OF SFC MOISTURE CNVGNC WHERE MAX VALUES ARE LOCATED OVR SE TX. WL MENTION EARLY EVE ISOLATED POPS FOR VCT ZONES AND ADD EARLY MORNING CLOUDINESS TO BOTH CRP AND VCT AREAS. 12Z ETA MODEL TIME CROSS-SECTIONS DEPICT 40-50% MID-LEVEL RH VALUES ACROSS THE FA AND FEEL THAT AFTN CNVCTN WL BE LIMITED TO ISOLATED AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT ALONG BNDRYS GENERATED THROUGH SFC HTG AND MOISTURE GRADIENTS (DEW POINT...CRP 75..VCT 81). SEABREEZE INTERACTION WL BE AN INFLUENCE TOWARD THE END OF THE FCST PERIOD. PROGRESSIVE UPPER WAVE PATTERN OF WRN TROF-CNTRL RDG-ERN TROF CONFIGURATION ACROSS THE U.S. TRANSLATES EWD THROUGH THE EXTENDED ALLOWING FOR AN INCREASE RAFL hPOTENTIAL BY THE WEEKS END. OTRW...NO MAJOR CHANGES ARE ANTICIPATED. THE FORECASTED NUMBERS ARE NEXT... CRP 078/095 077/094 076 0102 VCT 075/094 076/094 075 1102 LRD 077/098 076/097 077 0002 BML...76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 62 min |
| Sep 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 67 min |
| Sep 16, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.