Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2002, 8:01 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2002, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnet County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Marble Falls, TX | Trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 280101 SVRSAT TXC053-280200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 801 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BURNET * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 801 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURNET...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF LLANO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 10 MILE NORTH OF BURNET AT 820 PM IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 1:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 6 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 155 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 CURRENT CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TRACKING EAST AIDED BY A JET STREAK AND 700 MB TROUGH. WINDS ALOFT, GRADUALLY SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST, WILL SEND A COLD FRONT INTO SOUTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL RUN A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL FRONTAL PASSAGE. AN UPPER LOW WILL SKIRT ACROSS EASTERN COUNTIES AFTER FROPA KEEPING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA THROUGH FRIDAY. ULTIMATE TRACK OF THIS UPPER LOW WILL DETERMINE AERIAL COVERAGE OF RESIDUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BIG BUBBLE HIGH NEAR TEXAS PANHANDLE SATURDAY WILL KEEP CONDITIONS STABLE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. RAIN COOLED MINS WILL RUN 5 TO 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL TONIGHT AND TUESDAY NIGHT. AFTER FROPA, EXPECT MAX TEMPS NEAR NORMAL AND MIN TEMPS BELOW NORMAL. PRELIM NUMBERS... AUS 63 90 63 91 62 4355 SAT 66 90 65 90 65 4355 DRT 67 95 67 94 65 4344 .EWX...TOR WATCH #343 TIL 8PM. 06/08
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 2:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-217>221-228-280600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 233 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 ...INCREASING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT... THIS OUTLOOK APPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC COUNTIES... ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL... COMAL...DIMMIT...EDWARDS...FRIO...GILLESPIE...GUADALUPE...HAYS... KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY...LEE...LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL... TRAVIS...UVALDE...VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON...WILSON AND ZAVALA. A WEATHER SYSTEM OVER WEST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST... CAUSING AN INCREASING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR PARTS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATER TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE. A WEATHER SYSTEM PASSING NORTH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON MAY CAUSE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS FOR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY EAST TO THE AUSTIN AREA THIS AFTERNOON. FURTHER WEST...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALL READY FORMED WEST OF VAL VERDE COUNTY...AND ARE MOVING EAST. THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEXT UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE... THAT IS FORECAST TO MOVE EAST AND CAUSE AN INCREASING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE. SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE THREATENED AREA. FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND... SAN ANGELO... FORT WORTH... HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND CORPUS CHRISTI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 57 min |
| May 27, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 53 min |
| May 27, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 55 min |
| May 28, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 59 min |
| May 28, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.