Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2002, 12:15 AM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- May 28, 2002, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bell County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 12:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Prairie Dell, TX | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 280515
SVRFTW
TXC027-280600-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1215 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 100 AM CDT
* AT 1214 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KILLEEN...MOVING EAST AT
45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
PRAIRIE DELL AROUND 1230 AM CDT
SALADO AROUND 1230 AM CDT
HOLLAND AROUND 1240 AM CDT
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
LAT...LON 3106 9790 3093 9782 3079 9733 3093 9728
3104 9711 3130 9742What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 7:15 PM CDT, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:15 PM CDT, 5 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX HAVE SENT A QUICK UPDATE TO REMOVE WATCH 342. HAVE ALSO INCREASED THE POPS...MAINLY CENTRAL AND SOUTH...DUE TO AREAL COVERAGE OF THE ONGOING ACTIVITY. 610 PM CDT AVIATION DISCUSSION CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT WITH BEST STORMS ACROSS SOUTH 1/2 OF AREA WHERE THE AIRMASS IS WARMER AND A LITTLE MORE UNSTABLE. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME SEVERE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS AGAIN TUESDAY...AS WEAK UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM DRIFTS SOUTHWARD INTO THE SOUTH PLAINS. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY AS UPPER LEVEL FLOW BECOMES NORTHERLY WITH A SERIES OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES DROPPING SOUTH INTO WARM MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS TEXAS. FCSTID = 59 DFW 69 87 68 87 / 50 30 30 30 ACT 69 89 69 88 / 50 20 20 30 .FWD...NONE. .AVIATION... COMPLICATED FORECAST. THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF THE METRO AIRPORTS FOLLOWING ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WITH THE THE METRO AIRPORTS RECEIVING JUST THE BLOW-OFF PRECIP. STORMS TO THE SOUTHWEST SHOULD ALSO MOVE ESE. EXPECT CURRENT TSTRMS TO END IN METRO AIRPORTS BY 01Z. THEN A BREAK UNTIL POSSIBLY AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN THE PANHANDLE STORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE REGION. LOW LEVEL JET MAY ALSO HELP REGENERATE ELEVATED STORMS TO THE WEST AND MOVE EAST OVERNIGHT. CONFIDENCE IS LOW IN TIMING OF STORMS...IF ANY...AFTER THIS EVENING ACTIVITY. HAVE INDICATED PERIODS OF TSTRMS IN FORECASTS AS UPPER LOW RESPONSIBLE FOR CONVECTION WILL REMAIN IN THE AREA FOR AT LEAST 24-48 MORE HOURS.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 27, 6:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
644 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0314 PM GRANBURY TX WIND DAMAGE
05/27/02 HOOD MANY POWER LINES DOWN.
AWNING RIPPED OFF GAS
STATION. REPORTED BY
OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE.
0410 PM BONO TX WIND DAMAGE
05/27/02 JOHNSON TREES UP ROOTED AND
ROOF BLOWN OFF A MOBILE
HOME IN BONO. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0608 PM HILLSBORO TX WIND DAMAGE
05/27/02 HILL MINOR BUILDING DAMAGE
BY WIND. . REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 27, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
948 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 PM BRECKENRIDGE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 STEPHENS INN BRECKENRIDGE. .
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0300 PM TOLAR TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/27/02 HOOD NWS SPOTTER REPORTED
60+ MPH WINDS AT TOLAR.
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0304 PM TOLAR TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/27/02 HOOD WINDS 60 TO 70 MPH
AROUND TOLAR. REPORTED
BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
0304 PM TOLAR TX WIND DAMAGE
05/27/02 HOOD TREE LIMBS 5 TO 6
INCHES DIA BROKEN
SOUTWEST OF TOLAR.
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0308 PM TOLAR TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 HOOD DIME HAIL IN TOLAR.
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0314 PM GRANBURY TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 HOOD REPORTED IN GRANBURY. .
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0314 PM GRANBURY TX WIND DAMAGE
05/27/02 HOOD 314-326 LDT WIDESPREAD
WIND DAMGE IN GRANBURY.
TRESS/POWER LINES DOWN.
SEVERAL RADIO TOWERS
DOWN. FIREWORKS STAND
DESTORYED. OUTDOOR
MOVIE SCREEN DESTORYED.
WINDS MEASURED TO 67
MPH BY PUBLIC WEAHTER
STATION.. . REPORTED BY
HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
0337 PM GORMAN TX 2 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 EASTLAND 2 INCH HAIL. REPORTED
BY STORM SPOTTER.
0342 PM DE LEON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 COMANCHE GOLFBALL HAIL REPORT IN
DE LEON. . REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0406 PM BONO TX WIND DAMAGE
05/27/02 JOHNSON BARN DESTORYED IN BONO.
. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Special weather statement, May 27, 11:43 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1143 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE RISK AREA IS SOUTH A GOLDTHWAITE TO PALESTINE LINE. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST SLOWLY ACROSS THE RISK AREA. THE MAIN THREAT OVERNIGHT WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME FLOODING DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE RISK AREA MONDAY EVENING. SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE REQUESTED TO ACTIVATE BEFORE DAYBREAK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 59 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.