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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2002, 10:46 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 8, 2002, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ben Bolt, 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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.
509 WFUS54 KCRP 090346 TORCRP TXC249-090430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1046 PM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN JIM WELLS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1042 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEN BOLT...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF BENAVIDES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION FROM A TORNADO. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI. $$ GW
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, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 35 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 |
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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.