Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 333
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bandera County, TX, Brown County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 59 min |
| May 25, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 56 min |
| May 25, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 56 min |
| May 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 65 min |
| May 25, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1937 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger | 5 hr |
| May 25, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion and 10 more | 6 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.