Tornadoes in Texas, September 8, 2002

Name: Tornadoes in Texas, September 8, 2002
Start: 2002-09-08T02:06
End: 2002-09-08T21:46
Location: Texas

September 8, 2002 · NWS CRP · 6 events in 4 counties and zones

Multiple short lived tornadoes were spawned across the Coastal Bend from Tropical Depression Fay. In addition several reports of funnel clouds were received from law enforcement and the public.

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.

Multiple short lived tornadoes were spawned across the Coastal Bend from Tropical Depression Fay. In addition several reports of funnel clouds were received from law enforcement and the public.

What forecasters said that day

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 Sep 7, 9:20 PM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 9:20 PM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1020 PM CDT SAT SEP 7 2002

CONVECTIVE BAND DEVELOPED AS SEABREEZE TRIED TO TRACK INLAND THIS
EVENING...SINCE THEN SEABREEZE HAS BECOME DIFFUSE AND SW WINDS OVER
S CWA ARE CREATING DECENT CONVERGENCE ZONE RIGHT ALONG THE
COASTLINE.  RADAR TRENDS AND MESONET OBSERVATIONS INDICATING SE FLOW
BEGINNING TO ESTABLISH ITSELF ON THE NE SIDE OF I-37 AS FAY WOBBLES
NW...CURRENTLY JUST NORTH OF COT THIS EVENING.  SE FLOW AND
AFOREMENTIONED CONVERGENCE ALONG THE COAST NEAR PORT A AND RKP WILL
CONTINUE TO INITIATE CONVECTION THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND FLOW
WILL BRING PRECIP ACROSS THE NE CWA.  ALSO BELIEVE THAT WITH THE
GULF BEGINNING TO OPEN UP...SHRA/TSRA WILL FILL IN THE CENTRAL CWA.
WILL MAKE JUST MINOR CHANGES TO POPS AND ADJUST WINDS.  DUE TO THE
POTENTIAL OF CORE RAINS DEVELOPING NEAR THE CENTER OF THE REMNANT
FAY LOW AFTER MIDNIGHT WILL KEEP THE FFA GOING FOR THE COUNTIES THAT
THIS SHIFT INHERITED.

MARINE...WILL GENERALLY KEEP THE CURRENT WIND SPEED FORECAST
GOING...BUT WILL ADJUST THE DIRECTIONS AS WINDS PRETTY MUCH EAST OR
SOUTHEAST EVERYWHERE.  EXPECT TO SEE SOME SHOWERS DEVELOP TOWARD
MORNING WITH UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE. NO CHANGES TO THE LATTER
PERIODS.

.CRP...FFA TXZ229>231.

92/TR..SYNOP
86/GW..MARINE

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:03 UTC.

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Event by event

6 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Bee

When: September 8, 2:06 AM CST
Where: Bee County, Beeville
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.5 mi
Path width: 500 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 28.400, -97.750

Multiple funnels reported nw of Beeville

Tornado, Live Oak

When: September 8, 2:06 AM CST
Where: Live Oak County, Live Oak Co Arpt
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.6 mi
Path width: 500 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 28.333, -98.150

Tornado was associated with Tropical Depression Fay. No damage reported.

Tornado, Goliad

When: September 8, 3:02 AM CST
Where: Goliad County, Charco
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.4 mi
Path width: 400 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 28.733, -97.600

Tornado was associated with Tropical Depression Fay. No damage reported.

Tornado, Goliad

When: September 8, 3:45 AM CST
Where: Goliad County, 15 mi W of Goliad
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.6 mi
Path width: 500 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 28.667, -97.633

Tornado was associated with Tropical Depression Fay. No damage reported.

Tornado, Jim Wells

When: September 8, 9:15 PM CST to 9:25 PM CST
Where: Jim Wells County, Ben Bolt
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.5 mi
Path width: 500 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 27.650, -98.083

17 miles north of Falfurrias. Tornado was associated with Tropical Depression Fay. No damage reported.

Tornado, Jim Wells

When: September 8, 9:46 PM CST
Where: Jim Wells County, Ben Bolt
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.6 mi
Path width: 600 yd
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 27.650, -98.083

Tornado was associated with Tropical Depression Fay. No damage reported.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Texas, 2002 Warnings in Texas, September 2002

Sources

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: 5319643, 5319644, 5319645, 5319646, 5319647, 5319648.