Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 351
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT for 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2002, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 55 min |
| May 28, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 1557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Brown and 36 more | 4 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.