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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 6, 2000Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 6, 2000, 3:38 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 6, 2000, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired
Oct 6, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 6, 4:00 PM CDTTornado F0Robstown, 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 28 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1811 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KCRP 062038
TORCRP

TXC355-062115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
338 PM CDT FRI OCT 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 331 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO NEAR ROBSTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OPEN COUNTRY IN CENTRAL NUECES COUNTY AROUND 350 PM CDT...

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND
SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW
SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD WI8TH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 2786 9765 2774 9780 2757 9760 2759 9740

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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.