Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 6:42 PM CDT for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2002, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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.
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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 270403 SVRCRP TXC175-270500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1103 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1055 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY WEAKENING THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF WEESATCHE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF CUERO...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... 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, 5:56 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 5:56 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 556 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 INTERACTION OF SEABREEZE CONVECTION AND HILL COUNTRY CONVECTION(ASSOCIATED WITH CYCLONIC SHERA AXIS) WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS GIVEN SUFFICIENT BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE/FORCING/INSTABILITY. WILL MAKE SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS TO POPS AND INCREASE WIND SPEEDS GIVEN STRONGER SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT. .CRP...NONE. 85/86
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 26, 5:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 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
BBLocal storm report, Jun 26, 6:20 PM CDT, 22 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
BBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 64 min |
| 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 |
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.