Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 150
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 24, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT for 14 counties in Arkansas; McCurtain County, Oklahoma; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Yell County, AR, McCurtain County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Titus County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 34 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 17 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.