4 thunderstorm wind, 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 Oct 22, 8:52 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 952 PM CDT TUE OCT 22 2002 MESOSCALE BOUNDARY AT 02Z IN THE VICINITY OF AN ARTESIA WELLS-HEBRONVILLE-FALFURRIAS-BAFFIN BAY LINE. DFX/CRP/BRO VWP SHOWED A 20-30 KNOT LOW-LEVEL JET OVERRIDING THIS BOUNDARY AND PROVIDING ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE. UPSTREAM CONVECTION ACROSS MEXICO IS ASSOCIATED WITH A 500HPA SHORTWAVE. GIVEN THAT THE UPSTREAM CONVECTION IS STILL VIGOROUS...FEEL THAT THE STRONGER 1000-850 WINDS PER THE RUC ARE MORE REASONABLE AND WOULD SUSTAIN THIS CONVECTION OVERNIGHT AND ENHANCE THE ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE INVOF OF THE MESOSCALE BOUNDARY. THE UPSTREAM CONVECTION EXTRAPOLATES ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THE COASTAL BEND LATE TONIGHT/EARLY WEDNESDAY. BOUNDARY LAYER FORCING WILL ALSO BE INCREASING. WILL INCREASE POPS TO LIKELY NORTH AND HIGH CHANCE SOUTH. LATEST CRP STP INDICATES 1-3 INCHES WITH POCKETS OF 3-6 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES. GIVEN THE EXPECTED SCENARIO...WILL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES. WILL LOWER TEMPERATURES SOME DUE TO EXPECTED RAIN-COOLED AIRMASS. WILL BACK WINDS TO EAST ALL AREAS AND INCREASE SPEEDS SOME MAINLY DUE TO MESOSCALE INFLUENCES. MARINE...MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTH OF BAFFIN BAY WESTWARD TO RIO BRAVO WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN WITH SLIGHT NORTH TO SOUTH FLUCTUATIONS. TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT EXISTING ACROSS THE MARINE AREA AT THIS TIME IS MAINLY THE RESULT OF CONVECTIVE INFLUENCES..HOWEVER WILL MENTION HIGHER WINDS IN THE UPDATE. EAST/NORTHEAST FLOW WILL GRADUALLY BECOME EAST/SOUTHEAST TONIGHT WITH ISOLATED CONVECTION..MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN AREAS. SHORTWAVE PUSHING EASTWARD TOWARD THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS..BEST DEPICTED IN THE RUC/MESOETA ANALYSES..WILL INDUCE ADDITIONAL CONVECTION LATER TONIGHT. HOWEVER..DEVELOPMENT SHOULD NOT BE AS WIDESPREAD OR AS INTENSE AS EARLY TUE MORNING..AND CURRENT CONVECTION OVER MEXICO IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED WAVE IS ALREADY DISPLACED A BIT FARTHER NORTH AS COMPARED TO LAST NIGHT. 85/76 .CRP...NONE.
TXZ229>234-239>247-231100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 704 AM CDT TUE OCT 22 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWEVER... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH CLOUD TO SURFACE LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED DUE IN PART TO A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES. ANOTHER FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION LATER THIS WEEK...YET IS EXPECTED TO STALL. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. WC
TXZ229>234-239>247-231100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1039 PM CDT TUE OCT 22 2002 ...AN ACTIVE WEEK OF WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR SOUTH TEXAS... SOUTH TEXAS WILL EXPERIENCE AN INCREASING PROBABILITY OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE WEEK. ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH A STRONG JET STREAM AND A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AND EVEN ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL BEND...AND MAY NEED TO BE EXPANDED ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTH TEXAS LATER IN THE WEEK. ADDITIONAL STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BY SATURDAY MAY EXCEED 5 INCHES IN PORTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS. A SIGNIFICANT HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT WILL BE POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS LIVING ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS UNFOLDING WEATHER SITUATION. PEOPLE LIVING ALONG RIVERS...CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF ANY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT FALLS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR POSSIBLE WATER RISES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/CRP 85
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:31 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind Damage...numerous trees and powerlines blown down.
Wind Damage...Power lines down. trees down. union Pacific railroad bar blown over.
Trees down power lines down
Wind Damage...Two New grainelevators destroyed. Power poles snapped in halfed. Widespread trees and signs down. Roofs blown off trailers.
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, October 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: 5319566, 5319568, 5319613, 5319567.