Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 1:20 PM CST for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2002, 1:20 PM CST (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tom Green County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:25 PM CST | Hail 1 | San Angelo, TX | |
| Mar 19, 1:31 PM CST | Tornado F1 | San Angelo, TX | A tornado touched down on the extreme southeast side of San Angelo, producing minor damage as it tracked along a 3 mile long path. Several empty mobile homes were overturned and a handful of hunting blinds tossed around by the tornado. |
| Mar 19, 1:35 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | San Angelo, TX | Hail up to golf ball size pounded the southern half of San Angelo shortly after noon, creating drifts several feet deep in places. Around 3500 homes suffered light to moderate damage, along with around 4000 automobiles. Many trees were stripped of their leaves |
| Mar 19, 1:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | San Angelo, TX | Strong winds shattered windows in at least one business, causing minor damage. |
| Mar 19, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Veribest, TX | A tornado traveled a 4 mile path across eastern Tom Green County, producing relatively minor damage. The tornado ripped part of a flat roof off of an outbuilding, threw several irrigation pipes a few hundred yards, and picked up and moved heavy steel pipes. |
| Mar 19, 2:03 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | San Angelo, TX | Strong winds downed 4 power poles south of San Angelo. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 191920 TORSJT TXC451-192000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 120 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TOM GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 200 PM CST * AT 117 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF TANKERSLEY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANGELO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SAN ANGELO AT 130 PM CST WALL AT 135 PM CST VERIBEST AT 145 PM CST LAT...LON 3133 10068 3120 10054 3145 10021 3161 10040
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, 8:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 52 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, 1:43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.