Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 338
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2002, 2:45 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2002, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| May 26, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 24 min |
| May 26, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 22 min |
| May 26, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 42 min |
| May 26, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 47 min |
| May 26, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 42 min |
| May 26, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 27 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 6 hr |
| May 26, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb and 3 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 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.