Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX

Issued

Mar 19, 2002, 4:17 AM CST (10:17 UTC)

Expired

Mar 19, 2002, 4:45 AM CST

In force

28 min

Issued by

NWS San Angelo, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mason County, TX, Menard County, TX

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.

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WUUS54 KSJT 191017
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TXC319-327-191045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
415 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST MENARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  WESTERN MASON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 AM CST

* AT 412 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STREETER...OR ABOUT 20   
  MILES NORTHEAST OF JUNCTION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. QUARTER  
  SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN        
  JUNCTION.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   STREETER AT 430 AM CST

HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
FROM THIS STORM. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3074 9956 3071 9944 3077 9929 3092 9946

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 19, 3:05 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
305 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

PRIMARY FEATURES OF CONCERN THIS MORNING INCLUDE NEARLY STATIONARY
FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SW TO NE FROM SOUTHEASTERN CWA INTO
ARK AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDING NE FROM UPPER
LEVEL LOW OVER NW MEXICO.  THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN FIRING ALONG AND
NORTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MUCH OF THE NIGHT. EXPECT CONTINUATION
OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH TODAY AND INTO THE EVENING WITH
EXPECTED STRONG CONVERGENCE ALONG A DEVELOPING FRONTAL BOUNDARY
COMBINED WITH GOOD SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFTING AS UPPER TROUGH
APPROACHES... HAVE BUMPED POPS UP ACCORDINGLY. LATEST MESOETA HAS
CENTER OF UPPER LOW PASSING THROUGH CWA TONIGHT BEFORE OPENING AND
LIFTING NE OUT OF THE AREA.

WARMING TEMPS ON TAP INTO THE WEEKEND WITH A CHANCE OF PRECIP THE
FIRST OF NEXT WEEK AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM... BUT WILL FOREGO
MENTIONING CHANCE OF PRECIP ATTM.

ABI 064/043/062/040 9500
SJT 065/044/064/039 8500
JCT 068/046/065/038 9600

.SJT...NONE.

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.