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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2002, 4:45 AM CDT for Goliad County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2002, 4:45 AM CDT (09:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2002, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Goliad County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Goliad, TX | Tornado 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
978 WFUS54 KCRP 080945 TORCRP TXC175-081030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 445 AM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN GOLIAD COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 530 AM CDT * AT 445 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR CHARCO...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF GOLIAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WEESATCHE AROUND 530 AM CDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH...CULVERT OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 2863 9777 2850 9763 2875 9731 2891 9749
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 39 min |
| Sep 8, 3:47 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 118 min | |
| Sep 8, 3:47 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 118 min | |
| Sep 8, 4:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 2 hr | |
| Sep 8, 6:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 2 hr |
| Sep 8, 8:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 2 hr |
| Sep 8, 11:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad | 88 min |
| Sep 8, 5:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.