Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 8:20 PM CST for Shelby County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Mar 30, 2002, 8:20 PM CST (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Huxley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 459 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
682 WFUS54 KSHV 310220 TORSHV TXC419-310315- /NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0012.310214-310315/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 814 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SHELBY COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 814 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUXLEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE MOVING NEAR CENTER AROUND 845 PM CST. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... SHELBY COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS UNTIL 915 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Angelina | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 7:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | San Augustine | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 3:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina | 55 min |
| Mar 31, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches | 52 min |
| Mar 31, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 65 min |
| Mar 31, 4:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | San Augustine | 58 min |
| Mar 31, 4:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 59 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.