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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2012, 7:43 PM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Live Oak County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 8:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | Clegg, TX |
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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 2214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.4
- Supercell composite
- 14.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
574 WFUS54 KCRP 110043 TORCRP TXC297-110130- /O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0043.120511T0043Z-120511T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 743 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 744 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CLEGG...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GEORGE WEST...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ANNAROSE... LAGARTO... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2833 9798 2812 9792 2806 9832 2815 9832 TIME...MOT...LOC 0044Z 253DEG 13KT 2808 9825 $$ MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen | 40 min |
| May 10, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 63 min |
| May 10, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 48 min |
| May 10, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, McMullen | 35 min |
| May 10, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Webb | 47 min |
| May 10, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | La Salle | 42 min |
| May 10, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 54 min |
| May 10, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen | 37 min |
| May 10, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb | 34 min |
| May 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Webb | 2 hr |
| May 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Webb | 55 min |
| May 10, 8:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Duval, Live Oak, McMullen | 2 hr |
| May 10, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, San Patricio | 59 min |
| May 10, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, McMullen | 46 min |
| May 10, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 64 min |
| May 10, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio, Webb | 46 min |
| May 10, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio | 63 min |
| May 10, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio, Webb | 51 min |
| May 10, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 41 min |
| May 10, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 112 min | |
| May 10, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 54 min |
| May 10, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 23 min |
| May 10, 10:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 32 min |
| May 10, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 34 min |
| May 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 45 min |
| May 10, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 37 min |
| May 10, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 47 min |
| May 10, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 32 min |
| May 10, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 61 min |
| May 10, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio | 30 min |
| May 10, 11:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 3 hr | |
| May 10, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 13 min |
| May 10, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 24 min |
| May 10, 11:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Victoria | 16 min |
| May 11, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 45 min |
| May 11, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun | 24 min |
| May 11, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Webb | 34 min |
| May 11, 1:26 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| May 11, 2:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| May 11, 4:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 60 min | |
| May 11, 9:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 5 days |
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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.