Tornado, Nueces
- When
- October 6, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nueces County, 2 mi N of Robstown
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 0.1 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 27.817, -97.667
Tornado in Texas, October 6, 2000
As a thunderstorm moved south through San Patricio County, several funnel clouds were spotted by local law enforcement. When the storm moved into Nueces County, a tornado briefly touched down along the US-77 bypass north of Robstown.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.
As a thunderstorm moved south through San Patricio County, several funnel clouds were spotted by local law enforcement. When the storm moved into Nueces County, a tornado briefly touched down along the US-77 bypass north of Robstown. No damage or injuries were reported.
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:00 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Extreme Cold in Missouri, October 6 to 10, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, October 6, 2000
- Flood in Louisiana, October 6, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Kansas, October 6 to 10, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, October 6 to 7, 2000
- Waterspout in Florida, October 6, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, October 6, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, October 6 to 7, 2000
- Hail in Texas, October 6, 2000
- Hail in Arkansas, October 6, 2000
- Flood in Alaska, October 6 to 9, 2000
- Flood in Georgia, October 6, 2000
More
Every storm in Texas in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2000Warnings in Texas, October 2000
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5159819.