Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 16, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 3:27 PM CST for Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Callahan County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
032 WFUS54 KSJT 302127 TORSJT TXC059-302200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 326 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALLAHAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 325 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATWELL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CISCO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PUTNAM AT 345 PM CST THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED A TORNADO NEAR CROSS PLAINS AND ANOTHER TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3214 9930 3211 9911 3239 9899 3245 9917
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, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 59 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.