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Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 31, 1986Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1986, 5:18 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1986, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 312218
TORSJT
TXC451-312315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
518 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

TEXAS...TOM GREEN

AT 514PM CDT A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED JUST SOUTHWEST OF MATHIS
FIELD..8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANGELO, TX MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 1:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
120 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986

AT 115 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE
BIG COUNTRY. TWO AREAS WHERE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL WAS OCCURING WERE...
IN HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON COUNTIES...THE OTHER AREA EXTENDED FROM
DES DEMONA TO LAKE BROWNWOOD TO NEAR SAN ANGELO TO NOVICE AND CROSS
PLAINS.  THE RAIN GAGE AT BYRDS STORE...ON LAKE BROWNWOOD RECORDED
.83 OF AN INCH OF RAIN IN THE LAST HOUR.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15-20 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.

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.