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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

September 8, 2002Bee County, Live Oak County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2002, 3:06 AM CDT for Bee County, Live Oak County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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
Sep 8, 2002, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2002, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 8, 3:06 AM CDTTornado F0Beeville, TXMultiple funnels reported nw of Beeville
Sep 8, 3:06 AM CDTTornado F0Live Oak Co Arpt, TXTornado was associated with Tropical Depression Fay. No damage reported.

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 nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1233 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1438 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 3:47 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP118 min
Sep 8, 3:47 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP118 min
Sep 8, 4:03 AM CDTTornado WarningCRPGoliad42 min
Sep 8, 4:45 AM CDTTornado WarningCRPGoliad45 min
Sep 8, 5:56 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningCRP2 hr
Sep 8, 6:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPGoliad2 hr
Sep 8, 8:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPGoliad2 hr
Sep 8, 11:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPGoliad88 min
Sep 8, 5:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPBee3 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.