Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 349
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT for 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Medina County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 56 min |
| May 27, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 65 min |
| May 27, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 65 min |
| May 27, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 61 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 65 min |
| May 27, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 52 min |
| May 27, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 65 min |
| May 27, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 45 min |
| May 27, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 42 min |
| May 27, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 80 min |
| May 27, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 2 hr |
| May 27, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 55 min |
| May 27, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 61 min |
| May 27, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 46 min |
| May 27, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 55 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Ector, Edwards and 13 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.