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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 19, 2002Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2002, 6:08 PM CST for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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, 6:08 PM CST (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2002, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Uvalde County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 19, 6:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, TX	Severe winds caused spotty damage, mainly in the eastern half of Uvalde County, where they knocked down trees, blew down a dozen power lines, and caused damage to roofs in the area. Damage was also reported to windows in the eastern part of the county.

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, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 309 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 932 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -500 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 200008
SVRSAT
TXC463-200100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
608 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  UVALDE

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 603 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EASTERN KINNEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 25 
MILES WEST OF UVALDE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF UVALDE 
AROUND 615 PM.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.


LAT...LON 2944 10014 2927 10011 2936 9944 2958 9945

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Zavala	42 min
Mar 19, 6:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet	52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.