Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2002, 5:17 PM CDT for Bexar County, Comal County, Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
- Apr 16, 2002, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bexar County, TX, Comal County, TX, Guadalupe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 162217 SVRSAT TXC029-091-187-162315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 515 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... COMAL GUADALUPE BEXAR * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 515 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ST. HEDWIG...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONVERSE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCHERTZ AT 525 PM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CIBOLO AT 530 PM OVER MARION AT 535 PM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCQUEENEY AT 545 PM OVER NEW BRAUNFELS AT 550 PM * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... CHINA GROVE ST. HEDWIG CONVERSE UNIVERSAL CITY SCHERTZ CIBOLO LAT...LON 2941 9840 2932 9822 2971 9787 2988 9813
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Wilson | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall, Medina | 55 min |
| Apr 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Karnes | 29 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.