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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 432

June 16, 200213 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bell County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hill County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Llano, Williamson78 min
Jun 16, 3:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis, Williamson69 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Childress, Clay and 18 more6 hr
Jun 15, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Erath and 15 more5 hr
Jun 16, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBlanco, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche and 17 more6 hr
Jun 16, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAngelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 38 more5 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.