Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2002, 5:02 PM CST for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Mar 30, 2002, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Victoria County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:45 PM CST | Hail 1 | Edna, TX |
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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
478 WUUS54 KCRP 302302 SVRCRP TXC469-302345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 500 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VICTORIA COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 455 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER VICTORIA...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VICTORIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE AND WINDS TO 60 MPH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR TEXAS. LAT...LON 2881 9711 2868 9696 2898 9656 2916 9676 PURPURA
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 Mar 30, 2:43 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:43 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 200 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 SHORT-TERM...TWO THINGS TO FOCUS ON THIS AFTERNOON...THE CONVECTION DEVELOPING IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES AND THEN THE WINDS IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. LATEST 88D IMAGERY SHOWS THE SHOWERS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF REFUGIO COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE FORMING ALONG THE INTERSECTION OF THE DRY LINE AND THE SEABREEZE FRONT. WILL KEEP LOW END CHANCE POPS FOR THE NORTHEAST ZONES TONIGHT. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF TONIGHT AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IN EAST CENTRAL TEXAS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP EAST. THE ASSOCIATED PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT AND OFF THE COAST EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL START IN THE BREEZY CATEGORY EARLY TONIGHT AND BECOME LIGHT BEFORE THE SHIFT TO NORTHWEST. WITH THE LIGHT WINDS...PLACES IN THE NORTH(ESPECIALLY WHERE RAINFALL OCCURS) AND EAST MAY SEE SOME PATCHY FOG BEFORE SUNRISE. AS FOR TEMPS... OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 70S WERE COMMON LAST NIGHT. LOWS WILL BE CLOSER TO NORMAL THE NEXT TWO NIGHT. READINGS WILL BE IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOWER 60S. DAYTIME HIGHS WILL ALSO BE NEAR NORMAL WITH HIGHS RANGING FROM THE MID 70S TO THE MID 80S. THE PROGRESSIVE UPPER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS FORECAST CYCLE. THE CLOSED LOW OVER CENTRAL TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTHEAST AND WEAKEN. AS A RESULT...BRIEF NORTHWEST FLOW WILL SET UP TONIGHT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AND GIVE WAY TO NEAR ZONAL FLOW MONDAY AND TUESDAY. A WEAK MIDLEVEL SHORTWAVE WILL HELP TO BRING A BOUNDARY THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA ON WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME WILL ONLY INCREASE THE CLOUDS. BY THURSDAY...WEAK LIFT AND INCREASING MOISTURE COULD PRODUCE SOME LIGHT RAIN. THE MRF HINTS AT THE FORMATION OF A COASTAL TROUGH DURING THIS TIME WILL KEEP RAIN CHANCES THROUGH SATURDAY. MARINE...GALE WARNING WILL BE LOWERED TO SCA FOR EARLY TONIGHT. AFTER EARLY TONIGHT...WINDS DIMINISH BELOW SCA CRITERION...BUT SCA WILL AGAIN BE IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY. DRYLINE CURRENTLY FROM NORTHEAST LIVE OAK-SOUTHWEST DUVAL LINE IN CWA WILL BEGIN TO MOVE TWD COAST BY THIS EVENING AT WHICH POINT IT WILL BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY JUST ONSHORE. OVERNIGHT THE TRUE FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COASTAL AREAS, SWITCHING THE WINDS FROM SOUTHWEST TO WEST...TO NORTH TO NORTHWEST...AND INCREASING THE OFFSHORE FLOW TO SCA LEVELS DURING THE DAY SUNDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: CRP BB 060/083 056/080 061 -0000 VCT BB 057/080 050/076 058 10000 LRD BB 063/087 058/084 062 00000 .CRP...SCA EARLY TONIGHT AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY ALL MARINE ZONES. 78/70
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
TXZ232>234-244>247-310545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 345 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH VALID UNTIL 9 PM CST SATURDAY NIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: ARANSAS BEE CALHOUN GOLIAD REFUGIO SAN PATRICIO VICTORIA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF A DIME OR LARGER...STRONG WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AND EVEN TORNADOES. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA...THEN MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LAY FLAT DOWN ON THE GROUND...PREFERABLY IN A DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN SEVERE WEATHER. 78/CPW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 39 min |
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.