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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 8, 2005Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2005, 6:32 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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: May 8, 2005, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 8, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 1912 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KCRP 082333
TORCRP
TXC355-090015-
/O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0004.050508T2332Z-050509T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
632 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 629 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ROBSTOWN...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ROBSTOWN BY 640 PM CDT
  TULOSO BY 650 PM CDT
  CORPUS CHRISTI BY 655 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 2790 9773 2782 9784 2761 9760 2774 9741

$$

TE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad	28 min
May 8, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	43 min
May 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	48 min
May 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Live Oak	46 min
May 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Live Oak	43 min
May 8, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee	67 min
May 8, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	60 min
May 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Live Oak, San Patricio	60 min
May 8, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Live Oak	43 min
May 8, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Refugio	49 min
May 8, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	49 min
May 8, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	36 min
May 8, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		97 min
May 8, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	San Patricio	43 min
May 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		92 min
May 8, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas	40 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.