Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2002, 8:38 AM CST for Crockett County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Mar 19, 2002, 8:38 AM CST (14:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crockett 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 191438 SVRSJT TXC105-191530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 837 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CROCKETT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 930 AM CST * AT 834 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OZONA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... INTERSTATE 10 NEAR OZONA AT 900 AM CST 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 3045 10155 3033 10140 3080 10098 3107 10098
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 Mar 19, 3:05 AM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:05 AM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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. 15
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 19, 4:24 AM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX
424 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 AM JUNCTION TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/19/02 KIMBLE
PMSpecial weather statement, Mar 19, 5:25 AM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-191515- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 525 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 ...THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY... A POTENT UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AND INTERACT WITH A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE AREA. AS WARM...MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR IS LIFTED AHEAD OF THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND OVER THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. ALTHOUGH ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER WILL LIKELY LIMIT INSTABILITY...THERE DOES APPEAR TO BE ENOUGH WIND SHEAR TO ALLOW SOME OF THE STORMS TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS...WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE SEE STATEMENTS AND OUTLOOKS FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES ACROSS TEXAS...OKLAHOMA...AND NEW MEXICO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 3:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 4:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason, Menard | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 9:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 12:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 56 min |
| Mar 19, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 1:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 92 min |
| Mar 19, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 2:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Menard, Schleicher | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Menard | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 5:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 5:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, San Saba | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 41 min |
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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.