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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2004, 10:55 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2004, 10:55 AM CDT (15:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2004, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Calhoun County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 11:25 AM CDT | TORNADO | 5 N Tivoli, TX | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 5 MILES NORTH OF TIVOLI. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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.
735 WFUS54 KCRP 061555 TORCRP TXC057-469-061645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1054 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 AM CDT * AT 1052 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEADRIFT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS TORNADO REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES SOUTH OF KAMAY AROUND 1115 AM CDT... 6 MILES SOUTH OF PORT LAVACA AROUND 1130 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 2863 9701 2849 9694 2847 9658 2869 9662 $$ MB
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, 8:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 37 min |
| 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, 10:58 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.