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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2013, 3:09 PM CDT for Goliad County, Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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
- May 25, 2013, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Goliad County, TX, Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1868 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
133
WFUS54 KCRP 252009
TORCRP
TXC175-469-252045-
/O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0013.130525T2009Z-130525T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
309 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN GOLIAD COUNTY IN SOUTH TEXAS...
WEST CENTRAL VICTORIA COUNTY IN SOUTH TEXAS...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 304 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR COLETO
CREEK PARK...OR 12 MILES EAST OF GOLIAD...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SCHROEDER...
MISSION VALLEY...
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.
&&
LAT...LON 2884 9707 2862 9710 2864 9730 2888 9730
2893 9716
TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 186DEG 11KT 2872 9719
$$
GW2 follow-up statements
496
WWUS54 KCRP 252024
SVSCRP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
324 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013
TXC175-469-252045-
/O.CON.KCRP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130525T2045Z/
GOLIAD-VICTORIA-
324 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL VICTORIA AND NORTHEASTERN GOLIAD COUNTIES...
AT 318 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR COLETO CREEK
PARK...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VICTORIA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
THIS STORM IS STILL SHOWING SIGNS OF ROTATION AS IT MOVES NORTH. AT
THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THE BEST PART OF THE STORM WILL STAY
WEST OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SCHROEDER...
MISSION VALLEY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 2884 9707 2862 9710 2864 9730 2888 9730
2893 9716
TIME...MOT...LOC 2023Z 186DEG 11KT 2876 9718
$$
GW908
WWUS54 KCRP 252038
SVSCRP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
338 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013
TXC175-469-252047-
/O.EXP.KCRP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130525T2045Z/
GOLIAD-VICTORIA-
338 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 2013
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL VICTORIA AND NORTHEASTERN
GOLIAD COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 345 PM CDT...
THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND HAS LOST ITS ROTATION...SO THE WARNING
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MISSION VALLEY...
LAT...LON 2884 9707 2862 9710 2864 9730 2888 9730
2893 9716
TIME...MOT...LOC 2037Z 186DEG 11KT 2882 9718
$$
GWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Refugio, San Patricio | 92 min |
| May 25, 6:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 92 min |
| May 25, 6:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Duval | 87 min |
| May 25, 7:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak | 64 min |
| May 25, 8:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Live Oak | 91 min |
| May 25, 9:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 85 min |
| May 25, 9:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 87 min |
| May 25, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 44 min |
| May 25, 10:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 92 min |
| May 25, 11:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 65 min |
| May 25, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Victoria | 32 min |
| May 25, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Victoria | 35 min |
| May 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad, Refugio | 37 min |
| May 25, 3:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Victoria | 59 min |
| May 25, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 46 min |
| May 25, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.