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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 5, 2003Duval County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2003, 4:11 PM CDT for Duval County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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 5, 2003, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2003, 4:40 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Duval County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2833 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KCRP 052111
TORCRP
TXC131-052140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
410 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 440 PM CDT

* AT 400 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF 
REALITOS..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO 
INDICATE ROTATION WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RAMIREZ AROUND 420 PM CDT...
  THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 339 AND 285 AROUND 430 PM...

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS  IN ADDITION THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE PENNY 
SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

LAT...LON 2756 9846 2743 9860 2701 9843 2710 9820

$$

TR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPBee46 min
Jun 5, 1:51 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP114 min
Jun 5, 3:33 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP72 min
Jun 5, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCRPDuval59 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.