Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 6, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 30, 1986, 7:02 PM CDT for Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 1986, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Runnels 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 2042 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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, Sep 30, 3:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 355 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL THE BIG COUNTRY UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. AT 350 PM CDT A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR DICKENS TO SAGERTON TO WEST OF ANSON TO SWEETWATER TO WEST OF SAN ANGELO AND THEN BACK NORTH TO SNYDER...CLAIREMENT TO KALGARY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 345 PM CDT THE DEPT.t OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS NEAR LAKE CHAMPION IN MITCHELL COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 4:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX 419 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR NORTHERN PORIONS OF THE CONCHO VALLEY INCLUDING THE CITY OF SAN ANGELO. AT 415 PM CDT AN AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST OF STERLING CITY TO NORTH OF SWEETWATER. MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 30 MPH. HEAVIEST THUNDRSTORMS WAS 10 MILE SOUTHWEST OF STERLING CITY..THIS STORM MAY PRODUCT HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS.. A TORNDAO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LnOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNE TO YOUR RADIO..T.V AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 4:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 455 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR ALL THE BIG COUNTRY. AT 450 PM CDT A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR MUNDAY TO WEST OF ABILENE TO SAN ANGELO AND THEN NORTH TO LORAINE...ROBY... SWENSON AND BENJAMIN. THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS...WHERE SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE LIKELY...WERE NEAR ROCHESTER AND JUST NORTH OF MARYNEAL. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX 533 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR NORTHERN PORIONS OF THE CONCHO VALLEY INCLUDING THE CITY OF SAN ANGELO. AT 530 PM CDT AN AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES NOTTHWEST OF SAN ANGELO TO NORTH OF ROBERT LEE. MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 30 MPH. OTHER HEAVY STORM WERE NOTED SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON. HEAVIEST THUNDRSTORMS WAS 10 MILE SOUTHWEST OF ROBERT LEE..THIS STORM MAY PRODUCT HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS..PERSONS IN IN ROBERT LEE SHOULD STAY ALERTS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH. A TORNDAO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNE TO YOUR RADIO..T.V AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 600 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR ALL THE BIG COUNTRY. AT 555 PM CDT SHOWERS AND SEVERAL HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING WITHIN AN AREA FROM SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA FALLS TO ALBANY TO NEAR ABILENE TO ROBERT LEE AND THEN BACK NORTH TO MERKEL...SAGERTON AND ROCHESTER. STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF BLACKWELL AND BETWEEN LAKE KEMP AND SEYMOUR. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:26 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX 625 PM CDT TUE SEP 30 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR NORTHERN PORIONS OF THE CONCHO VALLEY INCLUDING THE CITY OF SAN ANGELO. AT 620 PM CDT AN AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ROBERT LEE TO 15 MILES WEST NORTH WEST OF WINTERS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER HEAVY STORM WAS NOTED SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS..PERSONS IN NORTHEAST COKE COUNTY AND NORTH WEST RUNNELS COUNTY SHOULD STAY ON THE ALERT AS THESE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST. A TORNDAO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNE TO YOUR RADIO..T.V AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
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.