Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2002, 4:49 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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 10, 2002, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- 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), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Coyanosa, TX | Multiple reports from the community of Coyanosa indicated ping-pong ball to baseball size hail fell in and just south of that town for extended periods of time, ranging from 45 minutes to one hour. This resulted in the devastation of melon, onion, and pecan c |
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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 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 102149 SVRMAF TXC371-102230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 448 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 448 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COYANOSA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... COYANOSA LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3109 10328 3111 10284 3126 10270 3135 10305
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 33 min |
| May 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| May 10, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 56 min |
| May 10, 6:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 4 hr |
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.