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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 23, 2002La Salle County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 6:20 PM CST for La Salle County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2002, 6:20 PM CST (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2002, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County La Salle County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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
Dec 23, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 98 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

096 
WFUS54 KCRP 240020 CCA
TORCRP
TXC283-240045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED ..CORRECTION...
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
620 PM CST MON DEC 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LA SALLE COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 604 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE STORM 
WAS NEAR ENCINAL ...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF ARTESIA WELLS. THE 
STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST MONDAY
EVENING FOR TEXAS.

LAT...LON 2823 9939 2803 9938 2839 9891 2859 9913

$$

PURPURA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 6:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	La Salle	28 min
Dec 23, 6:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	45 min
Dec 23, 7:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	Live Oak	36 min
Dec 23, 7:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP		52 min
Dec 23, 8:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP		38 min
Dec 23, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP		30 min
Dec 23, 9:24 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr
Dec 23, 9:24 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	CRP		2 hr
Dec 23, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP		31 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.