Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Menard County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1987 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 5:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 5:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 505 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 SENT A QUICK UPDATE TO ADD TORNADO WATCH TO CENTRAL AND EASTERN ZONES. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER CHANGES. .SJT...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR THESE COUNTIES... BROWN...CALLAHAN...COLEMAN...CONCHO...MASON...MENARD... MCCULLOCH...RUNNELS...SAN SABA...SCHLEICHER...TOM GREEN 23/HUBER **** 310 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 DISCUSSION FOLLOWS **** DRYLINE WAS ALONG WESTERN BOUNDARY OF CWA THIS AFTERNOON. LINE OF CLOUDS IN VISIBLE IMAGERY SEEMINGLY ALIGNED WITH DRYLINE FROM FT STOCKTON TO CHILDRESS APPEARS TO BE ALTOCUMULUS INSTEAD OF CUMULUS. SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS ALOFT WERE BRINGING IN DRIER AIR OVER REGION. IN ADDITION SUBSIDENCE CONDITIONS WERE MOVING INTO TO THE REGION BEHIND UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE...AS INDICATED IN THE WATER VAPOR LOOP. RAIN CHANCES QUITE LOW TONIGHT WITH ABOVE CONDITIONS. CAN NOT REALLY RULE OUT AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM HOWEVER. CAPES WILL RANGE FROM ZERO OVER WESTERN HALF TO AROUND 1500 J/KG OVER EXTREME EASTERN SECTIONS. THINKING AT THIS TIME...IS TO HAVE A 10 PERCENT CHANCE OF STORMS ONLY IN EASTERN ZONES. COLD FRONT MOVES IN EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL BE LIMITED IN SOUTHERN ZONES WITH FRONT COMING IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTY AND NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU...WHERE FRONT WILL BE LOCATED IN THE AFTERNOON AT TIME OF MAXIMUM HEATING. THURSDAY EVENING AND FRIDAY....MOIST AIR RETURNS WITH WARM FRONT... AND WEAK SHORTWAVES...SMALL POPS WARRANTED. SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE SUNDAY NIGHT AS COLD FRONT COMES THROUGH. SLIGHT CHANCES OF RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY WITH MOISTURE RETURNING FROM GULF. PRELIM CCF... ABI 061/080/058/084/068 --12 SJT 064/086/062/087/068 --22 JCT 066/089/066/087/068 1122 .SJT...NONE. 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 70 min |
| May 8, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 65 min |
| May 8, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 61 min |
| May 8, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 54 min |
| May 8, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 59 min |
| May 8, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 60 min |
| May 8, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.