Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1989, 1:34 PM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1989, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1989, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Menard 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1760 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 49 min |
| May 16, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 52 min |
| May 16, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard | 49 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.