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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2011, 5:16 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Sep 17, 2011, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2011, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jim Wells County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 2836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
802 WFUS54 KCRP 172216 TORCRP TXC249-355-172245- /O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0009.110917T2216Z-110917T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 516 PM CDT SAT SEP 17 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL JIM WELLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... NORTHWESTERN NUECES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF BANQUETE...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALICE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BANQUETE... 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. && LAT...LON 2786 9774 2769 9787 2781 9799 2794 9789 TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 307DEG 7KT 2785 9792 $$ RG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 5:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Jim Wells | 110 min |
| Sep 17, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 36 min |
| Sep 17, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 49 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.