Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2002, 7:16 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. 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
- Sep 18, 2002, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Stanton, 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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 1068 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
536 WUUS54 KMAF 190016 SVRMAF TXC371-190100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 715 PM CDT WED SEP 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN PECOS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAKERSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... INTERSTATE 10...FM 2286 AND THE INTERSECTION OF US HIGHWAY 190 AND INTERSTATE 10 GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3092 10228 3074 10230 3069 10191 3093 10202
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 87 min |
| Sep 19, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 73 min |
| Sep 19, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 39 min |
| Sep 19, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 13 days |
| Sep 19, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 13 days |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.