Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 727
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 24, 2002, 11:05 AM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2002, 11:05 AM CDT (16:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brooks County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 12:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 84 min |
| Oct 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 3:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 26 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson and 18 more | 5 hr |
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.