Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 278

May 10, 2002Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2002, 7:00 PM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2002, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2002, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties

Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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

17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 7:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale61 min
May 10, 7:59 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd46 min
May 10, 8:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum26 min
May 10, 8:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran51 min
May 10, 8:39 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBMotley66 min
May 10, 8:44 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd16 min
May 10, 8:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley49 min
May 10, 9:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb52 min
May 10, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer39 min
May 10, 9:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey28 min
May 10, 9:33 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBCottle57 min
May 10, 9:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale34 min
May 10, 9:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley14 min
May 10, 9:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Swisher40 min
May 10, 9:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey31 min
May 10, 10:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer32 min
May 10, 10:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro63 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 83 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
83 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-459 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 9:45 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more4 hr
May 10, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more5 hr
May 11, 12:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLipscomb5 hr
May 11, 5:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCHemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts5 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.