Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2002, 7:32 PM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2002, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Snyder, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 050032 SVRMAF TXC415-050115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 731 PM CDT SAT MAY 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 731 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF UNION...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SNYDER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... SNYDER...RANDALLS CORNER...AND HIGHWAY 84 LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 39 min |
| May 4, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 48 min |
| May 4, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 43 min |
| May 4, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 47 min |
| May 4, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 31 min |
| May 4, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 45 min |
| May 4, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 29 min |
| May 4, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 47 min |
| May 4, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 58 min |
| May 4, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 27 min |
| May 4, 11:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 38 min |
| May 4, 11:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 32 min |
| May 5, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 58 min |
| May 5, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 48 min |
| May 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| May 5, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 31 min |
| May 5, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| May 5, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.