Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 2:19 PM CST for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 30, 2002, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Taylor County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 302019 TORSJT TXC441-302115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 219 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 217 PM CST...AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF LAWN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINTERS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LAWN AT 225 PM CST TUSCOLA AT 230 PM CST A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LAT...LON 3213 9996 3209 9973 3220 9965 3239 9975
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 43 min |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 8:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 9:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 24 min |
| Mar 29, 9:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 12:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 1:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 2:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 21 min |
| Mar 30, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 2:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 3:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 3:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 35 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.