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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

June 26, 2002Victoria County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 10:37 PM CDT for Victoria County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 26, 2002, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2002, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3273 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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, 9:37 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 9:37 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 5:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
538 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0535 PM    MATHIS                    TX    MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/26/02   SAN PATRICIO

0535 PM    MATHIS                    TX   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/26/02   SAN PATRICIO

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
620 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0535 PM    MATHIS                    TX   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/26/02   SAN PATRICIO

0555 PM    SANDIA                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/02   JIM WELLS                      1 TREE DOWN WITH TSTM
                                           WIND GUST BY TRAINED SPOTTER

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:56 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		119 min
Jun 27, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		70 min
Jun 27, 2:12 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		63 min
Jun 27, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		64 min
Jun 27, 4:52 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		68 min
Jun 27, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, McMullen	57 min
Jun 27, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	La Salle	6 days

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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.