Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 53
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 29, 2002, 11:30 PM CST for Marshall County, Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2002, 11:30 PM CST (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Marshall County, OK, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wise County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 11:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 78 min |
| Mar 30, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 1:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 2:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 2:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 71 min |
| Mar 30, 2:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 3168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock, Howard and 7 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.