Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2002, 10:42 PM CDT for Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 13, 2002, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jones 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 140342 SVRSJT TXC253-140445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1041 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1040 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF AVOCA...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF STAMFORD...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AVOCA AT 1055 PM CDT ANSON AT 1140 PM CDT DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3297 9964 3295 9984 3272 10004 3271 9970
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 13, 10:30 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 10:30 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1030 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 REDUCED POPS ACROSS ALL ZONES EXCEPT THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY...WHERE THE MCS IS STILL MOVING THROUGH. WITH PLENTY OF BOUNDARIES AND A COLD FRONT CONTINUING TO PUSH SOUTH THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS..EXPECT ISOLATED DEVELOPMENT TO CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN BEST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES INTO EARLY MORNING WITH THE BEST INSTABILITY AND NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES LINGERING. .SJT...NONE. 24
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-140300- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 749 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 ...THUNDERSTORM WATCH EXTENDED TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH 10 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH 10 PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 15 COUNTIES... TXC049-059-083-253-307-417-441-140100- IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 7 COUNTIES... BROWN CALLAHAN COLEMAN JONES MCCULLOCH SHACKELFORD TAYLOR TXC003-033-115-151-165-169-227-263-305-317-335-353-415-445-140100-IN NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES... FISHER NOLAN TXC081-095-103-135-173-235-301-329-383-399-431-451-461-475-495-140100 - IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES... COKE CONCHO IRION RUNNELS STERLING TOM GREEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 71 min |
| Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 83 min |
| Jun 13, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Sutton | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 12 min |
| Jun 13, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 58 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.