1 high wind, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 30, 3:07 AM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
307 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002
**UPDATED WIND ADVISORY TO HIGH WIND WARNING. PRELIMINARY SOUNDING
DATA DEPICTS 68 KNOTS AT 1KFT AS A RESULT OF INTENSE INFLOW TO
CONVECTION WELL TO THE NORTH**
SHORT-TERM...WILL ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES
TODAY DUE TO STRONG ISALLOBARIC PRESSURE FALLS/THERMAL CONTRAST.
WILL ALSO ISSUE A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS TODAY
AS 20-25 KNOT TRANSPORT WINDS COMBINE WITH VERY LOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES. DRYLINE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN COASTAL
BEND BY 00Z THEN SLOWLY PUSH OFF THE COAST TONIGHT. A WEAK SUFACE
SURFACE CIRCULATION WILL MOVE NORTH ALONG THIS BOUNDARY AND LOCALLY
ENHANCE LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE. LEAD 500HPA SHORTWAVE WILL CLEAR THE
CWA THIS MORNING THEN ANOTHER 500HPA SHORTWAVE AFFECTS THE CWA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. STRONG CAPPING INVERSION/CIN WILL ERODE MOST
SUFFICIENTLY ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES WHERE ADEQUATE
INSTABILITY WILL EXIST. LAYERED DIVERGENCE Q FIELDS INDICATE JET
DYNAMICS WILL ALSO BE INFLUENTIAL. AGREE WITH SPC SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHEASTERN CWA AS 700HPA DRY
INTRUSION AND SOME 500HPA COOLING WILL RESULT IN THE THREAT FOR
STRONG/DAMAGING WINDS. WILL USE 20-30% POPS FOR THE NORTH AND <20%
FOR THE SOUTH. WILL ALSO REFRESH THE SPS. APPEARS CLASSIC FOG
SITUATION SETTING UP ACROSS THE EAST TONIGHT AS WINDS WEAKEN WITH
SHALLOW BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE AND DRY AIR ALOFT. A WEAK/DRY
PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE CWA SUNDAY. ONLY DEVIATION FROM
GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES IS TO GO HIGHER WITH MAXES GIVEN DRY SOIL AND
DOWNSLOPING WESTERLIES TODAY.
LONG-TERM...COLD FRONT STILL SLATED FOR EARLY WEDNESDAY. PERSISTENT
E/NE SURFACE FLOW/ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE/POSSIBLE COASTAL TROUGH
THURSDAY/FRIDAY WITH SUFFICIENT PWATS ARGUES AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCE
POPS.
MARINE...STRONG GULF INFLOW TOWARD DEVELOPING SEVERE CONVECTION
ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING CONTINUES TO GENERATE GUSTY ONSHORE
WINDS OVER THE AREA..MAINLY ACROSS INLAND COASTAL COUNTIES. SMALL
CRAFT ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY. SFC DRY-LINE
WILL SWEEP EASTWARD ACROSS INTERIOR LOCATIONS AND FORCE THE
SOUTHEAST FLOW TO DIMINISH AND VEER AND TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AND
WEST TONIGHT. NORTHERLY FLOW WILL USHER IN DRIER AND ONLY SLIGHTLY
COOLER AIR OVER THE WATERS FOR SUNDAY. MOISTURE DEPTH WILL BE QUITE
SHALLOW AHEAD OF THE DRY-LINE/SFC FRONT THIS EVENING AND EARLY
SUNDAY AND WILL ONLY MENTION ISOLATED CONVECTION..MAINLY NORTH OF
PORT ARANSAS WHERE SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND PROXIMITY TO
EXPECTED INLAND CONVECTION WILL BE GREATEST. OTHERWISE..ONSHORE
FLOW REDEVELOPS LATE MONDAY WITH A BACKDOOR TYPE COLD FRONT BACKING
THE FLOW TO EAST AND NORTHEAST BY MID WEEK.
PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
CRP NB 091/057 083/057 081 1-000
VCT NB 089/055 081/049 080 33000
LRD BB 093/059 085/055 084 -0000
.CRP...HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY TXZ242>247.
...RED FLAG WARNING TODAY TXZ229>231-239>241.
...GALE WARNING BAYS.
...SCA COASTAL/OFFSHORE MARINE ZONES.
85/BB/PUBLIC
76/BL/MARINE-AVIATIONThe Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 5 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:56 UTC.
1 high wind, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong inflow toward severe thunderstorms across central and north Texas generated sustained winds of 45 mph at 459 am with a peak wind gust of 47 knots at 458 am.
Sheriff office report of funnel cloud along Highway 59 moving toward Victoria county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5283222, 5283223.