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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 13, 1992Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1992, 2:02 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1992, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Tom Green County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Tom Green, TX
May 13, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Tom Green, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -248 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 131902
SVRSJT
TXC451-131945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
202 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
 
IN  TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY
 
AT 200 PM CDT...SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
LOCATED NEAR MERETA IN EASTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
INDICATING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 5 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING.F..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.

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, 1:49 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

TXZ016-017-029-034-018-131945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
149 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP IN THE CONCHO VALLEY AND NORTHWEST HILL
COUNTRY...

AT 140 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A
LINE FROM EAST OF FORT MCKAVETT TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF PAINT
ROCK.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF FORT
MCKAVETT AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EDEN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10
MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.

KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES OR
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, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	55 min
May 13, 2:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	26 min
May 13, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason, Menard	56 min
May 13, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Tom Green	55 min
May 13, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.