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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 9, 2011, 2:50 AM CST for Bee County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- Jan 9, 2011, 2:50 AM CST (08:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2011, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
566 WFUS54 KCRP 090850 TORCRP TXC025-297-090915- /O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0001.110109T0850Z-110109T0915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 250 AM CST SUN JAN 9 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BEE COUNTY IN SOUTH TEXAS... CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTY IN SOUTH TEXAS... * UNTIL 315 AM CST * AT 247 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GEORGE WEST...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RIVER CREEK ACRES... DINERO... BEEVILLE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2847 9759 2825 9754 2816 9817 2833 9821 TIME...MOT...LOC 0850Z 258DEG 43KT 2826 9809 $$ JR
1 follow-up statement
341 WWUS54 KCRP 090903 SVSCRP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 303 AM CST SUN JAN 9 2011 TXC025-297-090915- /O.CON.KCRP.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-110109T0915Z/ BEE-LIVE OAK- 303 AM CST SUN JAN 9 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 AM CST FOR CENTRAL BEE AND CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTIES... AT 301 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES EAST OF GEORGE WEST...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2847 9759 2825 9754 2816 9817 2833 9821 TIME...MOT...LOC 0902Z 258DEG 43KT 2829 9793 $$ JR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen | 44 min |
| Jan 9, 2:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 35 min |
| Jan 9, 2:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 4 more | 91 min |
| Jan 9, 3:22 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 3 hr | |
| Jan 9, 3:26 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 33 min |
| Jan 9, 4:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 24 min |
| Jan 9, 4:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 27 min |
| Jan 9, 4:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 29 min |
| Jan 9, 4:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 40 min |
| Jan 9, 4:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 19 min |
| Jan 9, 6:13 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 47 min |
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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.