Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 2002, 12:53 AM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 13 days. 2 reports 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 19, 2002, 12:53 AM CDT (05:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 days
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Glasscock County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Higginbotham, TX | |
| Oct 1, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Higginbotham, TX | Large hail combined with severe winds to produce damage to crops and rural properties. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
911 WUUS54 KMAF 190553 CCA SVRMAF TXC173-190555- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1246 AM CDT THU SEP 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1255 AM CDT * THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR GLASSCOCK COUNTY WAS ISSUED IN ERROR. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO SEVERE WEATHER IN GLASSCOCK COUNTY. LAT...LON 3208 10177 3165 10176 3166 10128 3208 10128
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, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 39 min |
| Sep 19, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 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.