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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2012, 1:45 PM CDT for Bee County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 4 reports 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
- May 10, 2012, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2012, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:48 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Se Whitsett, TX | REPORT OF TORNADO...UNCONFIRMED...MAGNITUDE UNKNOWN. |
| May 10, 1:51 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 Nnw Ray Point, TX | SMALL ROPE TORNADO WAS DOWN FOR ABOUT A MINUTE...HAS LIFTED |
| May 10, 1:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Whitsett, TX | SHED BLOWN DOWN AND LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN AS WELL. |
| May 10, 2:32 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Ssw Nell, TX | BREIFLY ON GROUND |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
465
WFUS54 KCRP 101845 RRA
TORCRP
TXC025-297-101930-
/O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0023.120510T1845Z-120510T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
145 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN BEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 144 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CHOKE
CANYON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM
WITH A POTENTIALLY LARGE AND DAMAGING TORNADO! PEOPLE IN
WHITSETT...ESSEVILLE AND NELL NEED TO TAKE COVER NOW!
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WHITSETT...
ESSEVILLE...
NELL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 2878 9808 2870 9801 2871 9796 2873 9792
2869 9786 2851 9820 2848 9828 2848 9833
2862 9834 2879 9811
TIME...MOT...LOC 1844Z 243DEG 16KT 2858 9828
$$
MB1 follow-up statement
134
WWUS54 KCRP 101901 RRA
SVSCRP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
201 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2012
TXC025-297-101930-
/O.CON.KCRP.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-120510T1930Z/
BEE-LIVE OAK-
201 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR EXTREME
NORTHWESTERN BEE AND NORTHWESTERN LIVE OAK COUNTIES...
AT 201 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITSETT...OR 9
MILES NORTHEAST OF CHOKE CANYON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. TAKE
COVER NOW IN ESSEVILLE AND NELL!
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ESSEVILLE...
NELL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 2852 9819 2851 9823 2848 9830 2863 9831
2879 9811 2878 9808 2870 9801 2871 9796
2873 9792 2869 9786
TIME...MOT...LOC 1901Z 243DEG 16KT 2861 9820
$$
MBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 52 min |
| May 10, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 29 min |
| May 10, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Webb | 53 min |
| May 10, 6:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 66 min |
| May 10, 7:06 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 54 min | |
| May 10, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen, Webb | 61 min |
| May 10, 8:01 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 48 min | |
| May 10, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 47 min |
| May 10, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | La Salle | 30 min |
| May 10, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 24 min |
| May 10, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 29 min |
| May 10, 10:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 43 min |
| May 10, 10:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle | 113 min |
| May 10, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 53 min |
| May 10, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 46 min |
| May 10, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 63 min |
| May 10, 12:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg | 41 min |
| May 10, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | McMullen | 44 min |
| May 10, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces | 37 min |
| May 10, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | La Salle | 40 min |
| May 10, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces | 35 min |
| May 10, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Jim Wells, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 33 min |
| May 10, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | McMullen | 46 min |
| May 10, 1:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 115 min |
| May 10, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 30 min |
| May 10, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 45 min |
| May 10, 1:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Kleberg | 56 min |
| May 10, 1:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, McMullen | 41 min |
| May 10, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 47 min |
| May 10, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 45 min |
| May 10, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 50 min |
| May 10, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | McMullen | 46 min |
| May 10, 2:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 96 min | |
| May 10, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 47 min |
| May 10, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 46 min |
| May 10, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 38 min |
| May 10, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 35 min |
| May 10, 3:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen | 3 hr |
| May 10, 3:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | CRP | Bee, Goliad, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Victoria | 19 hr |
| May 10, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 31 min |
| May 10, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | McMullen | 46 min |
| May 10, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, McMullen | 42 min |
| May 10, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 43 min |
| May 10, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 114 min | |
| May 10, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | McMullen | 33 min |
| May 10, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 46 min |
| May 10, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 33 min |
| May 10, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, McMullen | 60 min |
| May 10, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 57 min |
| May 10, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 37 min |
| May 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 35 min |
| May 10, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 45 min |
| May 10, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, McMullen | 37 min |
| May 10, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| May 10, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 57 min |
| May 10, 6:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 115 min |
| May 10, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 61 min |
| May 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, Live Oak, McMullen | 45 min |
| May 10, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb | 41 min |
| May 10, 6:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen | 111 min |
| May 10, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, McMullen, Webb | 47 min |
| May 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 43 min |
| May 10, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr |
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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.