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Tornado Warning 4, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1986, 3:15 PM CDT for Concho County, Texas. It was in force for 15 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1986, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1986, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Concho 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 18, 10:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1040 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN STONEWALL, WESTERN HASKELL, WESTERN FISHER, AND NORTHEST MITCHELL COUNTIES. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY IN THESE STORMS. SHOWERS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING ACROSS BROWN, SOUTHERN COLEMAN, AND JONES COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1145 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS ALL THE BIG COUNTRY. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE MOST NUMEROUS OVER NORTHERN TAYLOR, JONES, FISHER, AND STONEWALL COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1145 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS ALL THE BIG COUNTRY. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE MOST NUMEROUS OVER NORTHERN TAYLOR, JONES, FISHER, AND STONEWALL COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1245 PM WED JUN 18 1986 SHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE SCATTERED ACROSS ALL THE BIG COUNTRY. NUMEROUS HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN STONEWALL, NORTHEAST MITCHELL, FISHER, NOLAN, EASTERN JONES, NORTHERN TAYLOR, AND NORTHWEST COLEMAN COUNTIES. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN, AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN ALL THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 150 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM LAKE FORT PHANTOM SOUTHWARD ACROSS ABILENE TO NEAR BUFFALO GAP. THE UNDERPASSES IN ABILENE ARE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. HIGH WATER WAS REPORTED AT SOUTH 27TH AND TREADAWAY. STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY ACROSS ABILENE DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS, AS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS FISHER, NOLAN, JONES, TAYLOR, AND BROWN COUNTIES. SHOWERS COVER THE REST OF THE BIG COUNTRY. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THE HEAVIER STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL R>ADIO AND TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:56 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 250 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 ...WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING IN ABILENE... AT 240 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NUMEROUS OVER MUCH OF THE BIG COUNTRY. MOST OF THE RAINFALL WAS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR HICO TO DUBLIN TO CISCO TO ALBANY TO MUNDAY AND BENJAMIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MPH. SEVERAL FLOOD-PRONE STREETS AND UNDERPASSES IN ABILENE WERE FLOODED DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN. ONE GAGE AT NORTH FOURTH ST. AND HICKORY MEASURED 2.78 INCHES IN ABOUT AND HOUR AND A HALF...HOWEVER NO RAIN HAD FALLEN AT THE ABILENE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. THE DEPT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED NO MAJOR HIGHWAYS IN THE BIG COUNTRY WERE FLOODED AS OF 230 PM CDT. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH- CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AS SLOW-MOVING STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATESTl WEATHER INFORMATION.
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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.