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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

July 1, 2010Duval County, Jim Wells County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2010, 6:27 PM CDT for Duval County, Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 2010, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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
Jul 1, 7:17 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	13 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 3628 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 1, 3:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 1, 4:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 6:15 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Aransas, Refugio	33 min
Jun 30, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		32 min
Jun 30, 9:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	33 min
Jun 30, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		11 min
Jun 30, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg	31 min
Jun 30, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg	29 min
Jul 1, 12:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg	112 min
Jul 1, 2:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces	2 hr
Jul 1, 4:33 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	CRP		64 hr
Jul 1, 4:56 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio	5 hr
Jul 1, 5:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Webb	63 min
Jul 1, 8:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Nueces	117 min
Jul 1, 8:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak, McMullen	3 days
Jul 1, 9:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Duval, McMullen, Webb	85 min
Jul 1, 9:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Live Oak, San Patricio	95 min
Jul 1, 9:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Live Oak	2 hr
Jul 1, 9:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Webb	49 days
Jul 1, 10:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Aransas, San Patricio	29 min
Jul 1, 10:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio, San Patricio	81 min
Jul 1, 10:19 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio	39 hr
Jul 1, 12:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria	112 min
Jul 1, 2:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Nueces	6 hr
Jul 1, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Duval	41 min
Jul 1, 3:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Victoria	4 days
Jul 1, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Duval	47 min
Jul 1, 3:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces	117 min
Jul 1, 5:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio, San Patricio	60 min
Jul 1, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg	36 min
Jul 1, 6:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	2 hr
Jul 1, 6:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio, San Patricio	3 hr

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.