Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 15, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 3:16 PM CST for Jones County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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, 3:16 PM CST (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jones County, TX, Taylor County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.
587 WFUS54 KSJT 302116 TORSJT TXC253-441-302215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 315 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 312 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR THUNDERSTORMS WITH ROTATION OVER NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS OVER THE CITY OF ABILENE AT 310 PM. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HAWLEY AT 330 PM CST NUGENT AT 340 PM CST ANSON AT 345 PM CST MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3233 10013 3230 9964 3287 9963 3284 10013
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, 2:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 56 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, 3:27 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.