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Tornado Warning 4, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 17, 1988Concho County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 1988, 1:48 PM CDT for Concho County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 17, 1988, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 1988, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
42 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, 6.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1988-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 212 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1988-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels29 min
Sep 17, 3:32 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho43 min
Sep 17, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho61 min
Sep 17, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels43 min
Sep 17, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho61 min
Sep 17, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels59 min

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.