Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 4:27 PM CDT for Refugio County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2002, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Refugio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 252127 SVRCRP TXC391-252215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 427 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... REFUGIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 423 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF REFUGIO. THE STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTH AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI. $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 300 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 SHORT TERM...FAIRLY NICE COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS OVER THE VICTORIA AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS LAPS SHOWS MCON BULLSEYE WEST OF VCT WITH INSTABILITY AXIS OVER THE EASTERN COUNTIES. WILL KEEP LOW POPS FOR EARLY TONIGHT OVER NORTHERN ZONES. MAY ALSO INCLUDE LOW POPS FOR CRP AREA AS WELL DEPENDING ON RADAR TRENDS BUT FOR NOW WILL NOT MENTION IN FORECAST. FOR WEDNESDAY...SHEAR AXIS WILL EXTEND FROM W GULF INTO NE COUNTIES OF FORECAST AREA. BEST FOCUS AND INSTABILITY WILL BE OVER NORTHEAST COUNTIES AGAIN SO WILL HAVE HIGHEST POPS AGAIN. WITH AVN PROGGING SHEAR AXIS TO MOVE SLIGHTLY WEST ON THURSDAY...WILL MAINTAIN SIMILAR POPS OVER THE REGION FOR THURSDAY ALTHOUGH MAY NEED TO CONSIDER BOOSTING POPS FURTHER INLAND LATER. LONG TERM...EXPECT DEEPER E/SE FLOW TO DEVELOP NEAR THE WEEKEND AS MID LEVEL TROUGHING BECOMES MORE PRONOUCED. PWATS ARE PROGGED TO BE ABOVE 2 INCHES SO WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. MARINE...SOUTHERLY DIURNAL PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL INCREASE THROUGH THURSDAY ACROSS THE WATERS ALONG WITH ISOLATED AIRMASS CONVECTION. POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION WILL INCREASE LATER IN THE WEEK AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE OVERSPREADS THE REGION AND BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW WEAKENS. PWAT VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE INTO THE 2-2.5 INCH RANGE AS INVERTED MID-LEVEL TROF DEVELOPS WITHIN THE RETROGRESSING SYNOPTIC-SCALE ELONGATED TROF ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS..PLACING MUCH OF THE AREA IN THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE EASTERN QUADRANT OF CYCLONIC CIRCULATION. CRP BB 072/094 073/092 074 72-21 VCT BB 072/092 073/091 075 72133 LRD BB 076/100 077/099 077 72-1-= .CRP...NONE. AP...72 SYN BL...76 MESO
Nearby
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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.