Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2002, 11:42 PM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
- May 16, 2002, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2002, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Uvalde County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 2222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 170442 SVRSAT TXC463-170545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1140 PM CDT THU MAY 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... UVALDE * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT * AT 1140 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF UVALDE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR UVALDE AT MIDNIGHT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 2951 10009 2912 10009 2917 9947 2959 9952
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 46 min |
| May 16, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 73 min |
| May 16, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 37 min |
| May 17, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 57 min |
| May 17, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe, Wilson | 58 min |
| May 17, 4:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 64 min |
| May 17, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 59 min |
| May 17, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 2 hr |
| May 17, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 65 min |
| May 17, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 62 min |
| May 17, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 67 min |
| May 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 109 min |
| May 17, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 58 min |
| May 17, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 46 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.