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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

November 15, 2001Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2001, 2:44 PM CST for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: Nov 15, 2001, 2:44 PM CST (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2001, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Live Oak County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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 15, 2:46 PM CST	Tornado F1	George West, TX	5 Miles NE of George West - House damaged and large tree libs through roof - Shed blown away.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 15, 11:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 2181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

814 
WFUS54 KCRP 152044
TORCRP
TXC297-152115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
244 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 202 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER GEORGE WEST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND
MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. 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 WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 2837 9833 2814 9814 2836 9793 2852 9806

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg	60 min
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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.