Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 3:28 PM CST for Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 19, 2002, 3:28 PM CST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Val Verde County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Amistad Res East, TX | A second small and short-lived tornado was spotted by Val Verde County deputies near Lake Amistad in open country. |
| Mar 19, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Del Rio, TX | A third, and final, small tornado was spotted by Val Verde County deputies north of Del Rio in open country. |
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 WFUS54 KEWX 192128 TORSAT TXC465-192200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 327 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... VAL VERDE * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 327 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF DEL RIO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE NORTHEAST MOVING SOUTH OF LOMA ALTA AROUND 345 PM.
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, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 61 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, 3:42 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 |
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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.