Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2002, 8:24 PM CST for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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, 8:24 PM CST (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Navarro County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Corsicana, TX | Trees were blown down in the city. |
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, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 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 KFWD 200224 SVRFTW TXC349-200330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 823 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NAVARRO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CST * AT 823 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMING GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BLOOMING GROVE AROUND 840 PM CST CORSICANA AROUND 850 PM CST KERENS AROUND 905 PM CST DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LAT...LON 3208 9688 3181 9669 3202 9608 3234 9640
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 6:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 6:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 41 min |
| Mar 19, 7:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 9:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 37 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.