Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 14, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1995, 5:40 PM CDT for Concho County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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 28, 1995, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Concho County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Vick, TX | Extreme winds and giant hail slammed San Angelo, injuring at least 80 people and causing about $120,000,000 in damage. The bulk of the damage occurred in a path that spread from two miles wide at O.C. Fisher Dam to five miles wide at Goodfellow Air Force Base |
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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 232 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 282231 TORSJT TXC095-282345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 540 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ...CONCHO COUNTY AT 540 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MERETA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE THREATENED BY A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A STORM CELLAR. IF NO STORM CELLAR IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS PIFLLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY...OR GET UNDER A STURDY PIECE OF FURNITURE. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, 3 hours 40 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, 2 hours 27 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, 1 hour 33 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.
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:09 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
TXZ044-048-049-053-054-113-114-127-128-139-140-290005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 505 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN NOLAN COLEMAN AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. AT 500 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR COLORADO CITY TO BLACKWELL TO WEST OF COLEMAN. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF NOVICE AND NEAR SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS IN THE BIG COUNTRY WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IHF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR REPORTED AND SHOULD STAY TUNED TO RADIO... TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO 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 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, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 65 min |
| May 28, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 65 min |
| May 28, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 37 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995
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.