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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

September 16, 2002Nueces County, Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2002, 5:39 PM CDT for Nueces County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 16, 2002, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nueces County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 12:00Z on 2002-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 784 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2002-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
784 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

789 
WFUS54 KCRP 162239
TORCRP
TXC355-162315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
535 PM CDT MON SEP 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL NUECES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 534 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF DRISCOLL OR ABOUT 11 MILES        
  SOUTHWEST OF ROBSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. SEVERAL FUNNEL       
  CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PETRONILA BY 615 PM CDT...

LEAVE AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES...WHICH OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION
FROM A TORNADO.

LAT...LON 2775 9785 2757 9784 2756 9754 2779 9755

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 1:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPDuval, Jim Wells, Webb3 hr
Sep 16, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPNueces47 min
Sep 16, 6:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningCRPNueces3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.