Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 154
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 26, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT for 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2002, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 23 min |
| Apr 27, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 17 more | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.