Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 273
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 9, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT for 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 43 min |
| May 9, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 40 min |
| May 9, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 59 min |
| May 9, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 45 min |
| May 9, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 61 min |
| May 9, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 53 min |
| May 9, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 48 min |
| May 9, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 9, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 60 min |
| May 10, 12:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 10, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 52 min |
| May 10, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 65 min |
| May 10, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 50 min |
| May 10, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 60 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 7 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.