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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

December 23, 2002Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 7:24 PM CST for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2002, 7:24 PM CST (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2002, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Live Oak County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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
Dec 23, 7:33 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Three Rivers, 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 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
Dec 23, 7:10 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 2559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KCRP 240124
TORCRP
TXC297-240200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CST

* AT 722PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF 
THE STORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES WEST OF CLEGG...OR ABOUT 22 MILES 
SOUTH OF TILDEN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. A LINE OF STORMS EXTENDS 
NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS LIVE OAK COUNTY FROM THE STORM SOUTH OF TILDEN 
TO NEAR PEGGY. THE STORMS IN NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY ARE CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH.  

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING 
FOR TEXAS.  

LAT...LON 2809 9836 2809 9785 2843 9802 2869 9821
          2841 9833

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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, 6:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	La Salle	25 min
Dec 23, 6:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	45 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

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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.