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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 2, 2003Webb County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 9:44 PM CDT for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 2, 2003, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Webb County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 3099 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KCRP 030244
TORCRP
TXC479-030315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
944 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR THE LAREDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...OR 
  ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAREDO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.



LAT...LON 2765 9941 2753 9957 2721 9930 2736 9911

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	65 min
Jun 2, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	57 min
Jun 3, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Live Oak, McMullen	63 min
Jun 3, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval	57 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.