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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2002, 10:44 PM CDT for Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- Sep 19, 2002, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 3776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
212 WUUS54 KCRP 200344 SVRCRP TXC355-409-200445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1043 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS SAN PATRICIO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1041 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO TULOSO...OR FROM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORT ARANSAS TO 4 MILES EAST OF ROBSTOWN... MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... OVER CORPUS CHRISTI AROUND 1100 PM CDT... OVER FLOUR BLUFF AROUND 1105 PM CDT... OVER CHAPMAN RANCH AROUND 1120 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING... VERY FREQUENT AND DEADLY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING... SEEK A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY
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 Sep 19, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 19, 9:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 920 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002 ACTIVE BURST OF CONVECTION THIS EVENING AHEAD OF THE SFC TROF. EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE ALONG THE COAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT BEFORE FINALLY MOVING OFFSHORE. CELL MERGERS OVER KENEDY COUNTY COULD ROTATE UP THE COAST INTO EASTERN NUECES COUNTY...BRINGING HEAVY RAIN...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS VERY CLOSELY. WILL DROP POPS BEHIND THE TROF. 9PM MSAS ANALYSIS SHOWS THE COLD FRONT ALONG A LINE FROM EAGLE PASS TO AUSTIN LINE. 01Z RUC STILL BRINGS THE COLD FRONT TO THE COAST BEFORE SUNRISE. DWPTS ARE IN THE 50S BEHIND THE FRONT. MARINE...CWF IS IN GOOD SHAPE. MAINLY A SHORT TERM EVENT RIGHT NOW WITH CONVECTION MOVING OFF THE COAST. WILL HANDLE THIS WITH SPECIAL MARINE WARNINGS. .CRP...NONE 75/81
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 19, 10:11 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1011 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1011 PM 5 NW HOLIDAY BEACH TX 65 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
09/19/02 ARANSAS HAM OPERATOR REPORTED 65
MPH WINDS WITH TREES DOWN
IN COPANO COVE. FUNNEL
CLOUD WAS ALSO
OBSERVED.
JMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 36 min |
| Sep 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 9:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 55 min | |
| Sep 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 61 min | |
| Sep 19, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Refugio | 25 min |
| Sep 19, 10:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Refugio, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 33 days |
| Sep 19, 10:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 60 min | |
| Sep 19, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 3 hr | |
| Sep 19, 11:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 113 min |
| Sep 20, 12:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.