Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT for Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 15, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Live Oak County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 2181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
781 WFUS54 KCRP 150615 TORCRP TXC297-150700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 115 AM CDT MON JUL 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 111 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SIMMONS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THREE RIVERS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GEORGE WEST AROUND 120 AM CDT... 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THREE RIVERS AROUND 135 AM CDT... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OAKVILLE AROUND 140 AM CDT... OVER RAY POINT AROUND 145 AM CDT... IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | McMullen | 113 min |
| Jul 14, 11:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | McMullen | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Nueces | 21 days |
| Jul 15, 1:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Webb | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | McMullen | 115 min |
| Jul 15, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Webb | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 1:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Jul 15, 1:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Jul 15, 1:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | McMullen | 3 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.