Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2002, 9:55 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 8, 2002, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jim Wells County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1869 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
318 WFUS54 KCRP 090255 TORCRP TXC249-090330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 954 PM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 949 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL JIM WELLS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF FALFURRIAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 281 BETWEEN BEN BOLT AND PREMONT BETWEEN 10 PM AND 1015 PM. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. LAT...LON 2758 9824 2744 9824 2740 9806 2762 9806
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 9:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 44 min |
| Sep 8, 11:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 2:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 6:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen, Webb | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 9:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 118 min |
| Sep 9, 6:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 87 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.