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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2012, 8:59 AM CDT for Kleberg County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 16, 2012, 8:59 AM CDT (13:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2012, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Kleberg County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 2418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
816 WFUS54 KCRP 161359 TORCRP TXC273-161430- /O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0006.120416T1359Z-120416T1430Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 859 AM CDT MON APR 16 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL KLEBERG COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 930 AM CDT * AT 856 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KLEBERG COUNTY...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF SARITA...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL CENTRAL KLEBERG COUNTY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2734 9773 2755 9767 2751 9746 2730 9761 TIME...MOT...LOC 1359Z 198DEG 10KT 2736 9765 $$ HART
1 follow-up statement
147 WWUS54 KCRP 161412 SVSCRP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 912 AM CDT MON APR 16 2012 TXC273-161430- /O.CON.KCRP.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120416T1430Z/ KLEBERG- 912 AM CDT MON APR 16 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CDT FOR EASTERN KLEBERG COUNTY... AT 910 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL KLEBERG COUNTY...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF SARITA...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 2733 9760 2735 9769 2755 9767 2751 9746 TIME...MOT...LOC 1412Z 199DEG 7KT 2738 9767 $$ HART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 63 min |
| Apr 15, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 10:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Calhoun | 2 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 11:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Refugio | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:31 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 119 min | |
| Apr 16, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 1:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 18 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:34 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 56 min | |
| Apr 16, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 115 min |
| Apr 16, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 5:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 118 min |
| Apr 16, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 6:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | McMullen | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 7:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 113 min |
| Apr 16, 7:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 8:08 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 52 min | |
| Apr 16, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 9:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 9:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 118 min |
| Apr 16, 9:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 9:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 9:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Apr 16, 9:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 9:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 10:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Nueces | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 10:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 81 min | |
| Apr 16, 10:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 115 min |
| Apr 16, 10:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 11:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 112 min |
| Apr 16, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 12:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 59 min | |
| Apr 16, 12:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 111 min |
| Apr 16, 12:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 12:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 82 min | |
| Apr 16, 1:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 85 min | |
| Apr 16, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 52 min | |
| Apr 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 101 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.