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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 13, 2003Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2003, 10:22 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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.

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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KCRP 140322
TORCRP
TXC469-140400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1021 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1016 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER   
NURSERY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF VICTORIA...MOVING NORTHEAST 
AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OPEN COUNTRY IN NORTHERN VICTORIA COUNTY AROUND 1040 PM CDT...
  CROSS HIGHWAY 77 NORTH OF VICTORIA AROUND 1025 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY
BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A
DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

LAT...LON 2893 9718 2881 9703 2893 9682 2908 9699

$$

TR

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, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Live Oak	62 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, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	59 min
Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas	66 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.