Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 4:07 PM CST for Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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, 4:07 PM CST (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 4:26 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Laughlin Afb, 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 |
| Mar 19, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 13 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 192207 TORSAT TXC271-465-192300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 406 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... VAL VERDE KINNEY * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 406 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEL RIO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER DEL RIO AT 425 PM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAUGHLIN AFB AT 430 PM LAT...LON 2925 10118 2912 10104 2935 10045 2952 10090
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, 3:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 4:18 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.