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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 1996, 9:26 AM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 20, 1996, 9:26 AM CDT (14:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1996, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 9:40 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | George West, 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 201432 TORCRP TXC297-201530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 926 AM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...LIVE OAK COUNTY AT 925 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF CALLIHAM OR WEST OF GEORGE WEST IN NORTHWEST LIVE OAK COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD PASS SOUTHWEST OF GEORGE WEST BY 10 AM CDT. 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 AVAILABLE...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.
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, 1:54 AM CDT, 7 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 1:54 AM CDT, 7 hours 32 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 150 AM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996 ATTM...NO ACTVTY OVR OR NEAR THE COASTAL BEND. SPC HAS ISSUED A WW BOX JUST N OF THE FA AS STNG TO SVR TSRA MV SWD FM CLL-AUS-JCT LINE. WV LOOP ALSO SHOWING A JUICY UNSTABLE ATMOS OVR MOST OF TX. LAST EVENING CRP SOUNDING SUPPORTS THIS W/PWS ABOVE 2 INCHES...LIFTED INDEX OF -8 AND AN INCREDIBLE SHARP COMPUTED K INDEX OF 40. FLOW ALF WL CONT TO EJECT MINOR IMPULSES ACROSS THE AREA...INTERACTING WITH OLD TSTM BNDRIES AND SEABREEZE FNT TODAY. ONLY MINOR CHANGES IN THE PREVIOUS FCST POPS REQUIRED. REST OF FCST STANDS ON TRACK. MOS TEMPS SEEM TO BE RUNNING TO HIGH FOR THE MAX TEMPS AND TOO LOW FpOR THE MIN TEMPS BY A FEW DEGREES. PRELIMS... CRP 093/078/093 30/20/30 VCT 092/076/092 40/30/30 LRD 096/077/095 30/30/30 SRP...77
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 7:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ231>234-241>247-512-201300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 710 AM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF WEAKENING THUNDERSTORMS FROM HONDO TO VICTORIA TO HOUSTON MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 105 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE ENCOUNTERED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 61 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.