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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 14, 2001Kleberg County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 14, 2001, 6:00 PM CST for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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: Nov 14, 2001, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 14, 2001, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kleberg County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 14, 5:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

125 
WFUS54 KCRP 150001
TORCRP
TXC273-150100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
600 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL KLEBERG COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 559 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES   
  TO SHOW A TORNADO JUST WEST OF KINGSVILLE MOVING NORTH AT 5 TO 10  
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CROSS FM 3141 JUST WEST OF KINGSVILLE AROUND 630 PM CST...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW
ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER.

LAT...LON 2738 9802 2736 9782 2754 9780 2763 9802

The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 6:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, McMullen	3 hr
Nov 14, 7:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	McMullen	56 min
Nov 14, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	51 min
Nov 14, 7:47 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg	3 hr
Nov 14, 8:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	42 min
Nov 14, 9:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak, McMullen	3 hr
Nov 14, 9:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Live Oak	56 min
Nov 15, 11:45 AM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Nueces	45 min
Nov 15, 12:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	San Patricio	39 min
Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		59 min
Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		59 min
Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		59 min
Nov 15, 1:06 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	McMullen	3 hr
Nov 15, 1:40 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		65 min
Nov 15, 1:40 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		65 min
Nov 15, 1:40 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		65 min
Nov 15, 2:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	3 hr
Nov 15, 2:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Live Oak	31 min
Nov 15, 3:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Live Oak	66 min
Nov 15, 3:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Bee	3 hr
Nov 15, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee	62 min
Nov 15, 3:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Bee	37 min
Nov 15, 4:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Bee	30 min
Nov 15, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Goliad	30 min
Nov 15, 5:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Bee	27 min
Nov 15, 5:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad	3 hr
Nov 15, 5:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Duval	33 min
Nov 15, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Live Oak	41 min
Nov 15, 5:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak, McMullen	3 hr
Nov 15, 5:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad	65 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.