Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2002, 6:23 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2002, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Burnet County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 200023 SVRSAT TXC053-200115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 621 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BURNET * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 621 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURNET...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER RURAL AREAS OF FAR NORTHERN BURNET COUNTY * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR OAKALLA AND BRIGGS AROUND 645 PM CST. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 3103 9846 3082 9843 3068 9803 3106 9792
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 6:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson | 54 min |
| Mar 19, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 55 min |
| Mar 19, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Travis | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 60 min |
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.