Isolated severe thunderstorms moved across portions of the Big Country producing two known tornadoes. No reports of hail were received.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Isolated severe thunderstorms moved across portions of the Big Country producing two known tornadoes. No reports of hail were received.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 2:08 PM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 308 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 SHOWERS AND STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON...AS UPPER LOW SPINS TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. SOME ACTIVITY ALSO DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY. MOST ACTIVITY DEVELOPING IN THE UPPER DIVERGENCE AREA AND ALONG A COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM NEAR KLBB TO KOKC. CONSIDERING ITS LOOK ON SATELLITE...STILL NOT SURE MODELS ARE DOING JUSTICE TO THIS SYSTEM...WITH MODELS WEAKENING IT AS IT MOVES EAST. AT THE SURFACE...COLD FRONT SHOULD CONTINUE ITS SOUTHWARD MOVEMENT. MODELS PUSH THE FRONT INTO THE BIG COUNTRY BY MIDNIGHT...AND APPROACH THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AROUND SUNRISE. AREAS NORTH OF THE FRONT LOOK EXCELLENT FOR RAIN...AS NOSE OF THE LOW LEVEL JET OVERRUNS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND THE UPPER DIVERGENCE WITH THE UPPER LOW COINCIDE AS WELL. WILL INCREASE POPS FOR TONIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD. FINALLY...GIVEN THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT...850 MB DEWPOINT AT KMAF THIS MORNING WAS 20 WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES PUSHING 200 PERCENT OF NORMAL...WILL MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REST OF THE AREA WEDNESDAY MORNING...LEAVING A COOLER DAY AS LOTS OF CLOUDS CONTINUE. MOST OF THE RAIN GRADUALLY SHIFTS INTO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES DURING THE DAY AND ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AS A WEAKER SHORTWAVE ROUNDS THE BASE OF THE TROUGH AND EJECTS ACROSS MAINLY THE SOUTHERN ZONES. CLOUDS DECREASE FOR THURSDAY...WITH MORE SUN AND SLIGHTLY WARMER CONDITIONS. EXTENDED WISE...UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BACK INTO THE AREA FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEKEND...BUT BY SUNDAY THE MRF SHOWS AN UPPER TROUGH PASSING WELL TO THE NORTH DRIVING ANOTHER COLD FRONT INTO THE AREA. ALREADY CARRYING SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS FOR SUNDAY IN THE NORTH... AND FOR MONDAY FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES. THIS LOOKS GOOD FOR NOW AND WILL NOT CHANGE. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 062/081/061/086 7531 SJT 067/084/062/087 5541 JCT 070/086/062/086 4552 .SJT...NONE. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado developed over southern Haskell County just northwest of Stamford. This tornado moved to the southeast towards the town of Stamford. It uprooted trees and many birds were reported killed.
Storm Spotters continued to track the tornado from Haskell County into northern Jones County.
Law enforcement reported a brief tornado in Elbert. No structures were hit by the tornado.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2002Warnings in Texas, June 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5300973, 5300974, 5300975.