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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 1997, 3:38 PM CDT for Bee County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- May 23, 1997, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
987 WFUS1 KCRP 232041 RRA TORCRP TXC025-297-232145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 338 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHEASTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY AND BEE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR LAGARTO NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF FM 534 AND FM3162. MOVEMENT OF THE TORNADOO WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. HOWEVER...THE ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS BEE COUNTY HAVE BEEN PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS AND THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY BRIEFLY TOUCH THE GROUND ACROSS THE SKIDMORE AND BEEVILLE AREAS. &
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 May 23, 3:02 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:02 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 300 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 1997 SORRY FOR THE DELAY...BEEN REAL BUSY SO I'LL KEEP IT BRIEF. DECENT IMPULSE MVD THRU CWA TODAY...LEAVING BEHIND IMPRESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS. A WK MESOSCALE CIRCULATION EVIDENT IN KCRP 88D BASE REF LOOPS OVR THE ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO JUST EAST OF CRP AND RKP ENHANCED AND CHANNELED CONVECTION INTO EXTREME NRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA (CALHOUN AND PORTIONS OF VCT COUNTY). THE PRECIP FOCUS APPEARS TO BE SHIFTING TOWARD SE TX AS THE AFOREMENTIONED IMPULSE TRACKS IN THAT DIRECTION...HOWEVER LEFT OVR OUTFLO BNDRIES COUPLED WITH THE APPROACH OF AN IMPRESSIVE MID-UPR LVL IMPULSE WL KP FFA IN PLACE FOR THE ENTIRE CWA FOR TONIGHT. 12Z GRIDDED MODEL DATA SUGGEST SIGNIFICANT DRYING OF MID/UPR LVLS AS THIS NXT S/W PASSES THRU THE FA SAT. SO WL TREND POPS DOWN OVR THE NXT COUPLE OF PERIODS. PRELIMS... CRP 069/085/071/090 40% 30%Z(MORNING) 10% 10% NGP 071/083/073/086 40% 30%(MORNING) 10% 10% VCT 069/084/069/088 50% 30%(MORNING) 10% 10% LRD 068/089/071/091 20% 20%(MORNING) 00% 00% SRP...77
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 23, 3:15 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
315 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0926 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX WATERSPOUT
05/23/97 NUECES CORPUS CHRISTI PD REPORT OF
SPOUT OVER CORPUS CHRISTI
BAY.
1030 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
05/23/97 NUECES NAVAL AIR STATION SECURITY
REPORT OF SEVERAL INCHES OF
WATER COVERING THE ROADWAYS.
1033 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
05/23/97 NUECES NWS EMPLOYEE REPORT OF
FLOODING ALONG EVERHART AND
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND DRIVE
WITH SEVERAL VEHICLES
STRANDED.
1100 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
05/23/97 NUECES NWS EMPLOYEE REPORT OF
FLOODING ALONG RODDFIELD
ROAD FROM SOUTH PADRE
ISLAND DRIVE TO WOOLDRIDGE.
1115 AM GREGORY TX FLOODING
05/23/97 SAN PATRICIO CHIEF OF GREGORY PD
REPORTED WATER COVERING
MOST SECONDARY ROADS.
215 PM PORT LAVACA TX FLOODING
05/23/97 CALHOUN SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED
MANY ROADWAYS FLOODED IN
PORT LAVACALocal storm report, May 23, 3:23 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
315 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0926 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX WATERSPOUT
05/23/97 NUECES CORPUS CHRISTI PD REPORT OF
SPOUT OVER CORPUS CHRISTI
BAY.
1030 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
05/23/97 NUECES NAVAL AIR STATION SECURITY
REPORT OF SEVERAL INCHES OF
WATER COVERING THE ROADWAYS.
1033 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
05/23/97 NUECES NWS EMPLOYEE REPORT OF
FLOODING ALONG EVERHART AND
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND DRIVE
WITH SEVERAL VEHICLES
STRANDED.
1100 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX FLOODING
05/23/97 NUECES NWS EMPLOYEE REPORT OF
FLOODING ALONG RODDFIELD
ROAD FROM SOUTH PADRE
ISLAND DRIVE TO WOOLDRIDGE.
1115 AM GREGORY TX FLOODING
05/23/97 SAN PATRICIO CHIEF OF GREGORY PD
REPORTED WATER COVERING
MOST SECONDARY ROADS.
215 PM PORT LAVACA TX FLOODING
05/23/97 @ CALHOUN SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED
MANY ROADWAYS FLOODED IN
PORT LAVACAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 3 hr |
| May 23, 10:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 3 hr |
| May 23, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 2 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.