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Tornado Warning 12, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1995, 4:25 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1995, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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, 9.4 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 282126 TORSJT TXC451-282230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 425 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN TOM GREEN COUNTY AT 425 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DO NOT USE YOUR VEHICLE TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. VEHICLES ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE VEHICLE AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING...IF ONE IVS NEARBY...OTHERWISE SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT...BUT BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF RISING WATER.
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 28, 2:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
TXZ064>066-070>073-076>078-154-155-168>170-282005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 200 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN THE CONCHO VALLEY... AT 155 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A WEAK FRONT THAT EXTENDED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CONCHO VALLEY SOUTH OF SAN ANGELO. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN ANGELO AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF STILES. OTHER THUNDERSTOXRMS WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF MERTZON AND 20 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF STERLING CITY. NO MOVEMENT HAD BEEN DETERMINED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 28, 3:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ044-048-049-053-054-113-114-127-128-139-140-282210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 310 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 AT 310 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED IN THE AREA FROM NEAR VAN COURT...EAST OF SAN ANGELO...TO THE COLORADO RIVER IN SOUTHERN COLEMAN COUNTY. OTHER MUCH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NORTHWEST OF SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS IN THE BIG COUNTRY WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 28, 4:07 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
TXZ044-048-049-053-054-113-114-127-128-139-140-282310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 410 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 AT 405 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER IN SOUTHERN COLEMAN COUNTY. OTHER MUCH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE AREA NORTHWEST OF SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS IN THE BIG COUNTRY WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LpATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Reagan | 42 min |
| May 28, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Reagan | 48 min |
| May 28, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 58 min |
| May 28, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 68 min |
| May 28, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 65 min |
| May 28, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 65 min |
| May 28, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 37 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.