Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 14, 2001, 5:13 PM CST for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- Nov 14, 2001, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2001, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kleberg County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 5:20 PM CST | Hail 1 | Kingsville, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1072 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
246 WFUS54 KCRP 142313 TORCRP TXC273-150000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 513 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 503 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR RICARDO...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF KINGSVILLE... MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVER KINGSVILLE AROUND 540 PM CST... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 1:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 53 min |
| Nov 14, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 41 min |
| Nov 14, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, San Patricio | 41 min |
| Nov 14, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 23 min |
| Nov 14, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 115 min |
| Nov 14, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 56 min |
| Nov 14, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 44 min |
| Nov 14, 5:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Nov 14, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 58 min |
| Nov 14, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 3 hr |
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.