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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2015, 8:44 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 17, 2015, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2015, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 9:06 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 6 Nw Driscoll, TX | SPOTTER REPORTS FUNNEL STILL ASSOCIATED WITH STORM. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 1803 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
272
WFUS54 KCRP 180144
TORCRP
TXC355-180215-
/O.NEW.KCRP.TO.W.0013.150418T0144Z-150418T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
844 PM CDT FRI APR 17 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN NUECES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 842 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO JUST
EAST OF ALICE. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING TO THE
EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
IN ADDITION...WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF
BALLS WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.
ENTER LOCATION
**! WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROBSTOWN...DRISCOLL...BISHOP...BANQUETE...AGUA DULCE AND NORTH SAN
PEDRO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY STORM SPOTTERS. TAKE
COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 2764 9794 2788 9793 2786 9765 2757 9771
TIME...MOT...LOC 0142Z 283DEG 20KT 2777 9796
$$
TMT1 follow-up statement
617
WWUS54 KCRP 180201
SVSCRP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
901 PM CDT FRI APR 17 2015
TXC355-180215-
/O.CON.KCRP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-150418T0215Z/
NUECES TX-
901 PM CDT FRI APR 17 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN NUECES COUNTY...
AT 901 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
BANQUETE...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF DRISCOLL...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROBSTOWN...DRISCOLL...BISHOP...BANQUETE...AGUA DULCE AND NORTH SAN
PEDRO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 2764 9794 2788 9793 2786 9765 2757 9771
TIME...MOT...LOC 0201Z 276DEG 26KT 2778 9780
$$
TMTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Victoria | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Duval | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 24 min |
| Apr 17, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Refugio | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 8:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | San Patricio | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 38 min |
| Apr 17, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Calhoun | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 17 min |
| Apr 17, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Duval | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 9:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Apr 17, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 10:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 52 min |
| Apr 17, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 37 min |
| Apr 17, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Nueces, San Patricio | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 10:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 96 min | |
| Apr 17, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Nueces | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 25 min |
| Apr 17, 10:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas | 23 min |
| Apr 17, 11:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Apr 17, 11:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Nueces | 25 min |
| Apr 18, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 97 min | |
| Apr 18, 1:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 4 days |
| Apr 18, 1:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 50 min | |
| Apr 18, 2:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 22 hr |
| Apr 18, 10:28 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 4 days |
| Apr 18, 2:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 30 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, San Patricio | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 60 min | |
| Apr 18, 4:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 41 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.