Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 3:48 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- May 26, 2002, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 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), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 262048 SVRMAF TXC371-262145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 347 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... INTERSTATE 10 WEST OF FORT STOCKTON FORT STOCKTON OPEN COUNTRY OF WESTERN PECOS COUNTY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3091 10345 3073 10348 3034 10277 3109 10281
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| May 25, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 60 min |
| May 25, 7:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 114 min |
| May 25, 9:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 38 min |
| May 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.