Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2002, 12:21 AM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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
- Sep 19, 2002, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.
551 WUUS54 KMAF 190521 CCA SVRMAF TXC461-190600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1220 AM CDT THU SEP 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1215 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF RANKIN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... RANKIN LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3132 10217 3110 10219 3109 10178 3133 10178
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 4 hr |
| 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, 12:42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.