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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2002, 3:02 PM CDT for Nueces County, San Patricio County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2002, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | (Crp)Corpus Christi, TX | Trees down Roofs damaged |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | 60 min | |
| Oct 24, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Oct 24, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | 39 min | |
| Oct 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | 60 min | |
| Oct 24, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | 30 min | |
| Oct 24, 3:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 104 min | |
| Oct 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 26 min |
| Oct 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 75 min | |
| Oct 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 75 min | |
| Oct 24, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 75 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.