Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2002, 7:22 AM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2002, 7:22 AM CDT (12:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2002, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bosque County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 3, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 327 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
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KFWD 031222
SVRFTW
TXC035-031300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
722 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BOSQUE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 800 AM CDT
* AT 722 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLIFTON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 55
MPH.
LAT...LON 3184 9772 3161 9761 3172 9737 3182 9731
3195 9745The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 52 min |
| May 3, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 50 min |
| May 3, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 43 min |
| May 3, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath | 3 hr |
| May 3, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 58 min |
| May 3, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 37 min |
| May 3, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.