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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1989, 1:06 PM CDT for Runnels County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1989, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1989, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Runnels County, TX, 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSJT 131807
SVRSJT
TXC399-451-131915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
106 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...RUNNELS
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...NORTHEASTERN TOM.GREEN
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ORIENT MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25
TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL
AND A FUNNEL CLOUD. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING OUT OF TOM GREEN
COUNTY INTO RUNNELS IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE AQ STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 13, 10:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX 1036 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1989 AT 920 AM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SOME HEAVY WERE BUILDING RADIDLY IN THE CONCHO VCALLEY AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED ON LOOP 307 AND HIGHWAY 87. ...WITH THESE STORMS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND STRONG KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVI:SION STATIONS FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 13, 10:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX 1039 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1989 AT 920 AM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SOME HEAVY WERE BUILDING RADIDLY IN THE CONCHO VCALLEY AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED ON LOOP 306 AND HIGHWAY 87. ...WITH THESE STORMS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND STRONG KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND T;ELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 13, 10:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX 1041 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1989 AT 920 AM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SOME HEAVY WERE BUILDING RADIDLY IN THE CONCHO VCALLEY AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED ON LOOP 306 AND HIGHWAY 87. ...WITH THESE STORMS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER OR? YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 13, 11:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1156 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1989 AT 1147 AM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN AND PRODUCING HAIL SCATTERED OVER MUCH OF THE NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY. THE HEAVIEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MIES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST. OF STERLING CITY...ALONG THE CONCHO RIVER BETWEEN MERETA AND PAINT ROCK ...ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER NORTH OF DOOLE...AND IN COKE COUNTY WEST OF ROBERT LEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING SOME HAIL...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND LIGHTNING. RADAR WAS WAS INDICATING HAIL WITH THE STORMS IN SOUTHERN STERLING COUNTY...NORTHWEST CONCHO COUNTY AND NEAR DOOLE IN MCCULLOCH COUNTY. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER INFORMATION.p
Local storm report, May 13, 12:30 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1230PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1989 TIME LST DESCRIPTION OF EVENT ADDITIONAL REPORT FROM 5/13/89 0000-0100 CDT 0015 CDT CALLAHAN COUNTY DEPUTY IN GOLFBALL HAIL AT PUTNAM
Special weather statement, May 13, 12:46 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1245 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1989 A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR ALL THE BIG COUNTRY FROM 1 PM CDT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS SATURDAY EVENING. AT 1228 PM CDT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY. THE STROMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST OF BROWNWOOD TO NEAR SAN ANGELO TO BLACKWELL TO CROSS PLAINS. STRONGEST STORM IN THIS AREA WAS SOUTHWEST OF COLEMAN...JUST CROSSING THE COLEMAN/RUNNELS COUNTY LINE. ANOTHER AREA OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST OF ROTAN TO NEAR ASPERMONT. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 43 min |
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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.