Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2002, 1:59 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2002, 1:59 PM CST (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Val Verde County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:00 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Pandale, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 191959 SVRSAT TXC465-192100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 156 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... VAL VERDE * UNTIL 300 PM CST * AT 156 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE AMISTAD MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH AND ANOTHER SOUTHWEST OF PANDALE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MH. WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH BOTH OF THESE STORMS. * ONE STORM WILL PASS OVER PANDALE AROUND 215 PM. THE SECOND WILL MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 163 BETWEEN COMSTOCK AND JUNO TOWARD LOMA ALTA AROUND 220 PM. LAT...LON 2982 10171 2956 10111 3022 10072 3027 10172
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 94 min |
| Mar 19, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 3:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 3:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 4:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Maverick | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.