Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 726
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 24, 2002, 2:35 AM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2002, 2:35 AM MDT (08:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2002, 8:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 5:51 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 4 days |
| Oct 24, 6:08 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 5 hr |
| Oct 24, 6:44 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:05 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, DeWitt, Duval and 15 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.