Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 51
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 29, 2002, 7:30 PM CST for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2002, 7:30 PM CST (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Borden County, TX, Coke County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 8:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 39 min |
| Mar 29, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 9:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 24 min |
| Mar 29, 9:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 66 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Collin and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Falls, Grimes, Hardin and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bosque, Camp, Cherokee, Comanche, Dallas and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, Fort Bend and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Grimes, Hardin and 22 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.