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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2004, 8:53 AM CDT for Bee County, Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 6, 2004, 8:53 AM CDT (13:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2004, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bee County, TX, Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1044 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KCRP 061353 TORCRP TXC025-175-061430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 852 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BEE COUNTY IN TEXAS SOUTHERN GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 930 AM CDT * AT 848 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF BERCLAIR...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVER BERCLAIR AROUND 910 AM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE INTO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR TEXAS. LAT...LON 2851 9781 2835 9772 2851 9724 2873 9736 $$ TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 9:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Apr 6, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 10:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 10:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 48 min |
| Apr 6, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 50 min |
| Apr 6, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Refugio, San Patricio | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 11:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 11:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Apr 6, 11:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 21 min |
| Apr 6, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 83 min | |
| Apr 6, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 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.