Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2002, 10:10 PM CDT for Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 80 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 27, 2002, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mason County, TX
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 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 3101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 27, 10:08 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 10:08 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1008 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 PER LATEST POSITION OF LINEAR MCS IN OUR SOUTHEASTERN CWFA...WILL SEND A ZONE UPDATE TO CLEAR ADDITIONAL COUNTIES FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. 924 PM DISCUSSION STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS HAVE EVOLVED INTO A LINEAR MCS...MOVING INTO SOUTHEASTERN PART OF OUR CWFA. WITH THE SEVERE THREAT SHIFTING SOUTHEAST...WILL SEND A ZONE UPDATE TO CLEAR THE BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHWEST CONCHO VALLEY COUNTIES FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .SJT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR HEARTLAND...NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY...NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU...AND CONCHO VALLEY (EXCEPT STERLING AND COKE COUNTIES) UNTIL MIDNIGHT. 19
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 27, 6:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX
603 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM ROBERT LEE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 COKE
0509 PM 6 N MILES TX 2.50 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 RUNNELS
0515 PM 2 N ORIENT TX 2.50 INCH HAIL
05/27/02 TOM GREENSpecial weather statement, May 27, 9:11 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064-065-113-114-127-128-280230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 911 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 349 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... FISHER...JONES...SHACKELFORD...NOLAN...TAYLOR...CALLAHAN...STERLING AND COKE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR AREAS ROUGHLY SOUTHEAST OF A MERTZON TO WINTERS TO BROWNWOOD LINE. 14
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:58 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
TXZ066-071-072-076-280315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 958 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 349 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... RUNNELS...IRION...TOM GREEN AND CROCKETT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT... COLEMAN...BROWN...CONCHO...MCCULLOCH...SAN SABA...SCHLEICHER... SUTTON...MENARD...KIMBLE AND MASON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 58 min |
| May 27, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 50 min |
| May 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 62 min |
| May 27, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 56 min |
| May 27, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 65 min |
| May 27, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 65 min |
| May 27, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 61 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 65 min |
| May 27, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 52 min |
| May 27, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 65 min |
| May 27, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 45 min |
| May 27, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 42 min |
| May 27, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 2 hr |
| May 27, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 55 min |
| May 27, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 61 min |
| May 27, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 46 min |
| May 28, 6:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.