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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2003, 8:28 PM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 13, 2003, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Live Oak County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
849 WFUS54 KCRP 140128 TORCRP TXC297-140230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 826 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SIMMONS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF TILDEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLEGG AROUND 845 PM CDT... 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANNAROSE AROUND 855 PM CDT... STRONG WINDS OVER 65 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM OVER MOST OF LIVE OAK COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. LAT...LON 2806 9823 2818 9833 2848 9834 2806 9792 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Webb | 77 min |
| Jun 13, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 73 min |
| Jun 13, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 73 min |
| Jun 13, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 80 min |
| Jun 13, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 9:43 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 3 hr | |
| Jun 13, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 80 min |
| Jun 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Victoria | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.