Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 2002, 8:58 AM CST for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- Dec 23, 2002, 8:58 AM CST (14:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2002, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 5:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 15.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
826 WUUS54 KEWX 231458 SVRSAT TXC149-231545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 900 AM CST MON DEC 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... FAYETTE * UNTIL 945 AM CST * AT 900 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST PARTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...SOME HAIL...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN UP TO 1 INCH IN 30 MINUTES...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAYETTE COUNTY THORUGH 945 AM. LAT...LON 2978 9723 2971 9682 2991 9659 3012 9680 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kendall | 25 min |
| Dec 23, 3:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Llano | 41 min |
| Dec 23, 4:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 42 min |
| Dec 23, 6:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 53 min |
| Dec 23, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 30 min |
| Dec 23, 7:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 31 min |
| Dec 23, 7:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 47 min |
| Dec 23, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 52 min |
| Dec 23, 9:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 27 min |
| Dec 23, 9:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Fayette | 29 min |
| Dec 23, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 62 min |
| Dec 23, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 56 min |
| Dec 23, 5:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 24 min |
| Dec 23, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 18 min |
| Dec 23, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 52 min |
| Dec 23, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 64 min |
| Dec 23, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 62 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.