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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 1997, 3:47 AM CST for Goliad County, Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
- Apr 4, 1997, 3:47 AM CST (09:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1997, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Goliad County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRP 040946 RRA TORCRP TXC175-469-041015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 347 AM CST FRI APR 4 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...S... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...EASTERN GOLIAD COUNTY...VICTORIA COUNTY A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SCHROEDER MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD NURSERY AND MISSION VALLEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. 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. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 11:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:34 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 3:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.