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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 16, 2002McCulloch County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2002, 2:50 AM CDT for McCulloch County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 16, 2002, 2:50 AM CDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2002, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McCulloch 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 16, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 255 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KSJT 160750
SVRSJT
TXC307-160845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
248 AM CDT SUN JUN 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCCULLOCH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 345 AM CDT

* AT 244 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOHN...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF COLEMAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   LOHN...MERCURY AT 310 AM CDT
   PLACID AT 315 AM CDT
   ROCHELLE...BRADY AT 320 AM CDT
   VOCA AT 335 AM 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 3142 9911 3142 9956 3096 9927 3097 9910

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 15, 3:15 PM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:15 PM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
315 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

CURRENT...REMNANTS OF MCS MOVING ACROSS OUR SOUTHEASTERN ZONES. AT
THE SURFACE...ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY MOIST WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE
60S ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

DAYS 1-3...MODELS SUGGEST MORE RAINFALL TONIGHT WITH ANOTHER MCS
FORMING IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. APPEARS MAIN ACTION WILL BE
AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH THE BIG COUNTRY...ESPECIALLY THE NORTHERN BIG
COUNTRY...HAVING THE BEST RAIN CHANCES. MODELS SUGGEST GOOD SURFACE
CONVERGENCE ALONG THE COLD FRONT AS IT MOVES INTO OUR NORTHWESTERN
ZONES AROUND MIDNIGHT. THIS LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE...ENHANCED BY A
LOW-LEVEL JET...MAY DRAW THE DEVELOPING MCS FURTHER SOUTH THAN THE
MODELS SUGGEST. FOR NOW...WILL NOT PUSH THE POPS TOO HIGH ABOVE
GUIDANCE. HOWEVER...BELIEVE THE 20 TO 40 PERCENT RANGE THE MODELS
ARE IS TOO LOW...ESPECIALLY FOR THE BIG COUNTRY. SOME ACTIVITY MAY
LINGER INTO THE SECOND PERIOD. THUS...WILL CONTINUE LOW POPS MAINLY
FOR TOMORROW MORNING. SUNDAY NIGHT...SKIES WILL CLEAR WITH DRIER
CONDITIONS DOMINATING THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE NGM AND AVN
TEMPERATURE NUMBERS DO NOT AGREE VERY WELL...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGHS
TOMORROW AND MONDAY. THUS...NUMBERS WILL BE A BLEND OF BOTH. SOUTH
WINDS AT THE SURFACE WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH LATER TONIGHT ACROSS
THE BIG COUNTRY AS THE SURFACE FRONT PUSHES SOUTH INTO OUR CWFA. OUR
REMAINING ZONES WILL NOT SEE NORTH WINDS UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING.

DAYS 4-7...RAIN CHANCES DO NOT LOOK AS GOOD WITH THE UPPER RIDGE
CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT RETURNING
OVER THE WESTERN STATES. THUS...WILL CONTINUE DRY FORECAST WITH
TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO SEASONAL AVERAGES.

CCF PRELIMS...

ABI 065/083/060/088 6310
SJT 068/088/060/091 4210
JCT 071/090/060/090 3100

.SJT...NONE.

23/HUBER

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Throckmorton77 min
Jun 15, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones, Shackelford64 min
Jun 15, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell68 min
Jun 16, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan55 min
Jun 16, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Jones57 min
Jun 16, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell58 min
Jun 16, 12:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown65 min
Jun 16, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor66 min
Jun 16, 2:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, Runnels55 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.