Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 7:35 PM 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
- Jun 4, 2002, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 8:45 PM 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 1816 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 050035 SVRSJT TXC207-050145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 734 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAGERTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF ASPERMONT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE WAS 8 MILES EAST OF WEINERT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RULE AT 750 PM CDT ROCHESTER AT 805 PM CDT OBRIEN AT 815 PM CDT WEINERT AT 825 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3320 9998 3303 9999 3338 9949 3339 9997
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 Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 308 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 SHOWERS AND STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON...AS UPPER LOW SPINS TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. SOME ACTIVITY ALSO DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY. MOST ACTIVITY DEVELOPING IN THE UPPER DIVERGENCE AREA AND ALONG A COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM NEAR KLBB TO KOKC. CONSIDERING ITS LOOK ON SATELLITE...STILL NOT SURE MODELS ARE DOING JUSTICE TO THIS SYSTEM...WITH MODELS WEAKENING IT AS IT MOVES EAST. AT THE SURFACE...COLD FRONT SHOULD CONTINUE ITS SOUTHWARD MOVEMENT. MODELS PUSH THE FRONT INTO THE BIG COUNTRY BY MIDNIGHT...AND APPROACH THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AROUND SUNRISE. AREAS NORTH OF THE FRONT LOOK EXCELLENT FOR RAIN...AS NOSE OF THE LOW LEVEL JET OVERRUNS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND THE UPPER DIVERGENCE WITH THE UPPER LOW COINCIDE AS WELL. WILL INCREASE POPS FOR TONIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD. FINALLY...GIVEN THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT...850 MB DEWPOINT AT KMAF THIS MORNING WAS 20 WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES PUSHING 200 PERCENT OF NORMAL...WILL MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REST OF THE AREA WEDNESDAY MORNING...LEAVING A COOLER DAY AS LOTS OF CLOUDS CONTINUE. MOST OF THE RAIN GRADUALLY SHIFTS INTO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES DURING THE DAY AND ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AS A WEAKER SHORTWAVE ROUNDS THE BASE OF THE TROUGH AND EJECTS ACROSS MAINLY THE SOUTHERN ZONES. CLOUDS DECREASE FOR THURSDAY...WITH MORE SUN AND SLIGHTLY WARMER CONDITIONS. EXTENDED WISE...UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BACK INTO THE AREA FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEKEND...BUT BY SUNDAY THE MRF SHOWS AN UPPER TROUGH PASSING WELL TO THE NORTH DRIVING ANOTHER COLD FRONT INTO THE AREA. ALREADY CARRYING SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS FOR SUNDAY IN THE NORTH... AND FOR MONDAY FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES. THIS LOOKS GOOD FOR NOW AND WILL NOT CHANGE. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 062/081/061/086 7531 SJT 067/084/062/087 5541 JCT 070/086/062/086 4552 .SJT...NONE. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-041430- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 156 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 ...HEAVY RAIN WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS EXPECTED IN THE BIG COUNTRY TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY AFTER MIDNIGHT. WITH THE APPROACH OF THE FRONT AND AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY IN THE BIG COUNTRY...WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS ALSO POSSIBLE. AFTER MIDNIGHT APPEARS TO BE THE BEST CHANCE FOR THESE STORMS IN THE BIG COUNTRY. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...AND A QUICK ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN MAY OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 24
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Haskell | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 27 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.