Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 4:18 PM CST for Edwards County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2002, 4:18 PM CST (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, TX
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 192218 TORSAT TXC137-192245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 417 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... EDWARDS * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 417 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKSPRINGS...OR ABOUT 42 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEL RIO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD JUST NORTH OF THE COUNTY LINE.
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, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.