Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT for Howard 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 7, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 7, 9:08 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Big Spring, TX | Storm spotters reported golfball size hail just north of the Howard and Glasscock County line on Highway 33. |
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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 4703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 KMAF 080145 SVRMAF TXC227-080230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 844 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 842 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG SPRING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... BIG SPRING...LOMAX...SOUTH HAVEN...ELBOW AND SAND SPRINGS HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3227 10169 3210 10168 3210 10123 3229 10126
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 33 min |
| May 7, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 34 min |
| May 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 23 min |
| May 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 35 min |
| May 7, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 46 min |
| May 7, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 41 min |
| May 7, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 46 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.