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Tornado Warning 1, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 13, 1992Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1992, 2:34 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1992, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1992, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Tom Green County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 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
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 131934
TORSJT
TXC451-132000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
234 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
 
IN  TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY
 
AT 230 PM CDT...THE SAN ANGELO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE
SPOTTED TWO TORNADOES BETWEEN SAN ANGELO AND WALL. THESE TORNAD~OES
WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.

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, May 13, 1:49 PM CDT, 45 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green43 min
May 13, 2:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho55 min
May 13, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMason, Menard56 min
May 13, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, Tom Green55 min
May 13, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTTom Green32 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.