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Tornado Warning 2, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1992, 4:41 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1992, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1992, 5:13 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 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, 9.7 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 132143 TORSJT TXC451-132230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 441 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS ...TOM GREEN COUNTY AT 438 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATESD A POSSIBLE TORNADO AND THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FORMING FUNNEL IN THE CITY OF SAN ANGELO TOWARD LAKE O.C. FISHER. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING LITTLE...WITH A SLIGHT DRIFT TO THE SOUTHEAST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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, 2 hours 52 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.
Special weather statement, May 13, 2:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
TXZ012-015-019-024-029-030-132040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 240 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING SOUTH AND WEST OF THE BIG COUNTRY... AT 240 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR SAN ANGELO AND REACHING TO JUNCTION. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN MIDLAND AND SAN ANGELO. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. MOTORISTS DRIVING INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO WATER WHICH COVERS THE ROADWAY TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 13, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
TXZ012-015-019-024-029-030-132140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 340 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE BIG COUNTRY UNTIL 10 PM... AT 340 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR SAN ANGELO AND REACHING TO JUNCTION. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN MIDLAND AND SAN ANGELO. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING NEAR MERKEL IN TAYLOR COUNTY AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF BROWNWOOD. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. MOTORISTS DRIVING INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION COVERS THE ROADWAY TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 13, 3:46 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
TXZ017-029-034-018-132145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 346 PM CDT WED MAY 13 1992 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY FROM 3 PM CDT UNTIL 10 PM CDT TONIGHT... THE COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE COKE...CONCHO...CROCKETT...IRION ...KIMBLE...MASON...MCCULLOCH...MENARD...RUNNELS...SCHLEICHER... STERLING...SUTTON AND TOM GREEN... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR KIMBLE...MASON AND MENARD COUNTIES TONIGHT... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS EXPIRED AT 345 FOR EASTERN TOM GREEN...WESTERN MASON AND ALL OF MENARD COUNTIES... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF THE CONCHO VALLEY AT MID AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE TRIGGERED IN IN THE VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WHEN DISTURBANCES IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE PASSED OVER THE AREA. AT 335 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CONCHO VALLEY BETWEEN ABILENE...JUNCTION...ROOSEVELT...SOUTHWEST STERLING COUNTY AND WINTER. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS COULD BE DETECTED. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN STERLING COUNTY...EASTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY AND NEAR ROOSEVELT. THESE STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THEIR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO TAKE COVER INSTANTLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR THEIR AREA. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE TOM GREEN SHERIFFS OFFICE DURING THE LAST HOUR NORTHWEST OF WALL. BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN EDEN. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED BY SPOTTERS IN SAN ANGELO AND GRAPE CREEK.. KEEP LISTENING FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 43 min |
| 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 |
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.