Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2002, 2:38 AM CDT for Duval County, Jim Wells County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2002, 2:38 AM CDT (07:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2002, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Duval County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Live Oak County, TX
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 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
- 2444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KCRP 080738 SVRCRP TXC131-249-297-080830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 235 AM CDT MON APR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DUVAL COUNTY NORTHERN JIM WELLS COUNTY SOUTHWESTERN LIVE OAK COUNTY * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 235 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST OF FREER...AND OTHER SEVERE STORM 8 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF ANNAROSE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WINDS TO 60 MPH AND HAIL UP TOP NICKEL SIZE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR PORTIONS OF TEXAS. LAT...LON 2803 9845 2781 9874 2780 9804 2828 9808 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 Apr 7, 10:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 10:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1017 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002
STRENGTHENING CAPPING INVERSION WILL BE PARTIALLY COUNTERACTED BY
STEEPENING MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES/JET DYNAMICS IN AN ENVIRONMENT WITH
SUFFICIENT CAPE AND INCREASING LOW-LEVEL JET. CURRENT POP
CONFIGURATION AND SEVERE EMPHASIS FROM MCMULLEN TO VICTORIA COUNTIES
WILL BE RETAINED. WIND ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES THROUGH
5AM WILL ALSO BE KEPT GIVEN STRENGTHENING LOW-LEVEL JET/ISALLOBARIC
CONTRIBUTIONS. ONLY ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE TO SHIFT WINDS TO NORTHWEST
LATE ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AND LOWER TEMPERATURES SOME DUE TO
OUTFLOW CONSIDERATIONS. NO CHANGES TO THE MARINE.
.CRP...WIND ADVISORY TXZ242>244 UNTIL 10Z.
SCA GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275.
85/BB/PUBLIC
78/CW/MARINE-AVIATIONIn the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 12:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TXZ229>234-246-247-081000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1245 AM CDT MON APR 8 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN COASTAL BEND UNTIL 500 AM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR THE COUNTIES OF LASALLE...MCMULLEN...LIVE OAK... BEE... GOLIAD...VICTORIA...REFUGIO...AND CALHOUN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE HAIL...WITH A DIAMETER OF A DIME OR LARGER... STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS OF 58 MILES PER HOUR OR GREATER...OR A TORNADO. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...AND TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 58 min |
| Apr 8, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 59 min |
| Apr 8, 4:19 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 56 min | |
| Apr 8, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 65 min |
| Apr 8, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 27 min |
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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.