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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

October 22, 2000Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 22, 2000, 12:02 PM CDT for 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Oct 22, 2000, 12:02 PM CDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired
Oct 22, 2000, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Victoria County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 2000-10-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1741 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 2000-10-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KCRP 221702
TORCRP

TXC469-221730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1202 PM CDT SUN OCT 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT

* AT 1200 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR NURSERY...
  ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF VICTORIA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OPEN COUNTRY IN NORTHWESTERN VICTORIA COUNTY AROUND 1210 PM CDT...

LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION
FROM A TORNADO.

LAT...LON 2882 9721 2882 9701 2930 9696 2929 9727

&O

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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.