Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 2002, 3:46 AM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 84 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
- Oct 23, 2002, 3:46 AM CDT (08:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2002, 5:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 2192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
189 WUUS54 KCRP 230947 SVRCRP TXC355-231010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 446 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 510 AM CDT * AT 441 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SAN PATRICIO COUNTY TO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN KLEBERG COUNTY...OR FROM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INGLESIDE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CORPUS CHRISTI...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. 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... THIS IS A DANGEROUS LINE OF STORMS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LITTLE WARNING. LAT...LON 2785 9727 2753 9726 2744 9672 2774 9666
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak | 5 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, McMullen | 40 min |
| Oct 23, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 118 min |
| Oct 23, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 118 min |
| Oct 23, 4:22 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 53 min | |
| Oct 23, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 31 hr |
| Oct 23, 5:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 69 days |
| Oct 23, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Oct 23, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr |
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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.