Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 692
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 19, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2002, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Erath County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1068 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Cottle, Foard and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 18, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Fisher and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Cooke, Montague | 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.