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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 5:26 PM CDT for San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2002, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 6:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Mathis, TX | Winds over 60 mph |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 2281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 262226 SVRCRP TXC409-262330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 526 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TYNAN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF SKIDMORE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY $$ GW
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 26, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 310 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 DISCUSSION...MORNING CONVECTION ACROSS THE EASTERN FA/COASTAL SECTIONS APPEARED TO TEMPORARILY STABILIZE THE BOUNDARY LAYER THROUGH MUCH OF THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS INLAND SECTIONS AS COMPARED TO YESTERDAY..HOWEVER CONVECTIVE INITIATION HAS BEGUN ACROSS THE NERN CWA AND JUST TO THE SOUTH OF KLEBERG CO AS THE SEABREEZE PROVIDES CONVERGENT FOCUS. EXPECT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION TO PREVAIL THIS EVENING..MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ALICE TO THREE RIVERS AND WEST OF THE SERN COASTAL BEND WHERE SEABREEZE HAS STABILIZED THE AREA. POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION WILL BE PREVALENT THROUGH MUCH OF THE UPCOMING FORECAST CYCLE..WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED ACTIVITY TOMORROW THROUGH AIRMASS/SEABREEZE CONVERGENCE..AIDED BY LIFT FROM A SOUTHWARD MOVING SHORTWAVE TROF. AIRMASS VARIETY CONVECTION WILL EXIST ON FRIDAY..ALTHOUGH AREA WILL BE PLACED BEHIND THE VORT. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR RAINFALL WILL OCCUR THIS WEEKEND AS PWATS INCREASE INTO THE 2.0-2.5 INCH RANGE ALONG WITH CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH AN INLAND PROGRESSING WAVE/INVERTED MID-UPR LEVEL TROF. RAINFALL CHANCES DECREASE AFTER SUNDAY TO MORE CLIMATOLOGICAL/ISOLATED VALUES. MARINE...CONVECTION REMAINING WELL OFFSHORE THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER SHOWERS AND STORMS TO INCREASE AGAIN OVERNIGHT ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN PARTS OF THE MARINE AREA AS ETA AND AVN SHOW INCREASING MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. GRADIENT PROGGED TO TIGHTEN AS SURFACE LOW DEVELOPS OVER FAR WEST TEXAS. THINK THAT PERIODIC SCEC CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS...MAINLY OVER THE BAYS AND BEGINNING TONIGHT. SURFACE REFLECTION OF INVERTED TROUGH WILL CAUSE SOME BACKING AND DIMINSHING OF WINDS WITH A CONTINUED CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS. THE FORECAST NUMBERS ARE NEXT... CRP BB 075/093 075/092 074 76-32 VCT BB 073/091 074/090 075 76343 LRD BB 078/098 077/097 077 76022 BML.76 / AP.72 .CRP...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 5 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.