Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2002, 12:20 AM CDT for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 70 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 25, 2002, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Haskell County, TX
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 1270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 250520 SVRSJT TXC207-250630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1220 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1220 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF WEINERT...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF HASKELL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEINERT AT 1235 AM CDT HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS GOLFBALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3339 9982 3329 9991 3299 9951 3334 9947
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 24, 2:50 PM CDT, 9 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:50 PM CDT, 9 hours 30 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 250 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002 WITH SUNSHINE AND GOOD MIXING TODAY...DRYLINE WILL LIKELY DEVELOP ALONG AN IRAAN...BIG LAKE...COLORADO CITY LINE THIS EVENING. ATMOSPHERE IS UNSTABLE WITH SATELLITE 17Z CAPES OF 3000 J/KG IN THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN CWA. MESOETA CINH VALUES NEARLY ZERO AT 21Z THIS AFTERNOON. STORMS THAT DEVELOP OFF THE DRYLINE WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE CWA THIS EVENING. 15Z CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK INDICATED HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON IN A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A STERLING CITY TO ROBERT LEE TO BROWNWOOD LINE WERE IN A SLIGHT RISK. COLD FRONT REMAINS IN THE PANHANDLE AT 19Z...FROM NEAR AMARILLO TO GAGE. FRONT WILL BE SLOW MOVING TONIGHT...BUT SHOULD GET SOME HELP AS 5H SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS OVERNIGHT. MESOETA AND AVN TIMING AGREE IN BRINGING THE FRONT INTO THE BIG COUNTRY IN THE MORNING...THEN STALLING IN THE CONCHO VALLEY IN THE AFTERNOON. FRONT WILL BE SHALLOW AND LACKING UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT...BUT WITH INSTABILITY AND A FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR PROFILE NEAR DRYLINE AND FRONT...MAY SEE SOME STORMS. AGAIN SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. SUNDAY AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE MOVES OUT OF THE 4-CORNERS AREA AND SLOWLY MOVES EAST INTO KANSAS WEDNESDAY. THIS MAY SLIGHTLY ENHANCE THE THUNDERSTORMS POTENTIAL SUNDAY/SUNDAY EVENING. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK WILL SEE NORTHWEST TO NORTH FLOW ALOFT AS UPPER RIDGE DEVELOPS OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS. WITH MOISTURE HANGING AROUND...AND PROBABLY A WEAK CAP...THERE SHOULD BE SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. PRELIMS... ABI 065/079/062/082/063 3233 SJT 068/087/063/086/064 2233 JCT 068/089/065/087/065 1233 .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 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 60 min |
| May 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 66 min |
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 65 min |
| May 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 55 min |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 78 min |
| May 24, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 2 hr |
| May 24, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels, Taylor | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 81 min |
| May 24, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 63 min |
| May 24, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 72 min |
| May 24, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 61 min |
| May 24, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 76 min |
| May 24, 9:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 3 hr |
| May 24, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 75 min |
| May 24, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 70 min |
| May 24, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels | 62 min |
| May 25, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 69 min |
| May 25, 12:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 67 min |
| May 25, 1:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 60 min |
| May 25, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 60 min |
| May 25, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 28 min |
| May 25, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 59 min |
| May 25, 2:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 61 min |
| May 25, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 56 min |
| May 25, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 46 min |
| May 25, 4:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 4 hr |
| May 25, 8:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 69 min |
| May 25, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 33 min |
| May 25, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 69 min |
| May 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 61 min |
| May 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 59 min |
| May 25, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 56 min |
| May 25, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 56 min |
| May 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 67 min |
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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.