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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 1996, 6:18 PM CDT for San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Patricio County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Mathis, 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, 11.3 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.
- 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 162319 TORCRP TXC409-170000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 618 PM CDT MON SEP 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WESTERN SAN PATRICIO COUNTY AT 615 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF MATHIS. THIS TORNADO IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 359 NEAR THE TOWN OF TYNAN BY 625 PM AND WILL PASS VERY NEAR MATHIS. TAKE COVER NOW! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 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, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee | 52 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.