1 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 23, 1:58 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 258 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002 CONVECTIVE COMPLEX MOVING ACROSS AREA IS PRODUCING LOTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND PROBABLE WIND GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH. SYSTEM WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED AS IT APPROACHES THE COAST AS AIRMASS FAVORABLE FOR CONVECTIVE CONTINUATION. GENERALLY A WET PATTERN IN STORE AT LEAST THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY...AS UPPER LEVEL PATTERN WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH WEAK WAVES ACROSS AREA...WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY NEARBY AND NO CAP. WILL ISSUE FFA NOW AS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED AND DEFINITELY MORE TO COME BEFORE THE WEEK IS OUT. WILL JUST GO WITH FFA THROUGH TODAY AS DEPENING ON HOW MUCH EFFECTS THIS MCS HAS ON TEMPORARILY STABILIZING THE ATMOSPHERE AND THUS MAY BEE TOO QUIET THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WATCH. HOWEVER...WILL LIKELY HAVE TO BE EXTENDED IF NOT FOR TONIGHT THEN AT LEAST SOME TIME THIS WEEK. HIGHEST MOISTURE VALUES PROGGED TO BE FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY WITH CONTINUED UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT AND PROXIMATE FRONTAL BOUNDAY...WHICH WILL LIKELY REMAIN NORTH. AVN NOW TRYING TO DRY THINGS OUT SOME BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. NOT SURE IF THAT WILL OCCUR. MRF NOW DROPPING ANOTHER TROUGH DOWN ON TUESDAY BEFORE RIDGING BEGINS ON WEDNESDAY. WILL PROBABLY LET DAY SHIFT TAKE A CLOSER LOOK. PRELIMS... CRP TT 083/071 082/071 081 65767 NGP 082/072 081/072 081 ALI TT 086/070 083/070 082 55667 VCT TT 078/066 078/067 077 65767 LRD ET 086/070 083/070 080 46577 RKP TT 081/071 081/071 081 65767 MARINE...EXPECT THE E-W BNDRY ACROSS SRN TX TO REMAIN QUASI- STATIONARY THROUGH FRI. THIS BNDRY WL COMBINE WITH A MOIST/UNSTABLE AND LOW BRN ENVIRONMENT TO GENERATE STG CONVECTION DRG THE PERIOD. EVEN STRONGER/MORE NUMEROUS CONVECTION EXPECTED SUNDAY OWING TO THE ADDITION OF STG UPPER DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH A DISTURBANCE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SWRN CONUS/PLAINS. EXPECT ONSHORE FLOW TO INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY BY FRI NGT IN RESPONSE TO THE FOREGOING UPPER SYSTEM... WITH SCA CONDITIONS BY SAT OFFSHORE. .CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY TXZ229>234-239>247. 86/GW...87/WC
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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
411 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 AM ALICE TX 73 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/23/02 JIM WELLS
GWPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
430 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0418 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX 75 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/23/02 NUECES REPORTED BY ASOS
0415 AM KINGSVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/23/02 KLEBERG POWER LINES DOWN. ONE BIG
TREE DOWN. UNION
PACIFIC RAILROAD BAR BLOWN
OVER.
0410 AM DRISCOLL TX WIND DAMAGE
10/23/02 NUECES POWER LINES DOWN
0458 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX 69 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/23/02 NUECES REPORTED AT THE NAVAL AIR
STATION
GWPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
430 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0418 AM CORPUS CHRISTI TX 75 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/23/02 NUECES REPORTED BY ASOS
0415 AM KINGSVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/23/02 KLEBERG POWER LINES DOWN. ONE BIG
TREE DOWN. UNION
PACIFIC RAILROAD BAR BLOWN
OVER.
0410 AM DRISCOLL TX WIND DAMAGE
10/23/02 NUECES POWER LINES DOWN
GWThe Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:10 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind damage...TRaffic lightblown down by wind. Reported by Sheriffs office.
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: 5319614.