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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 29, 1996Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1996, 11:12 PM CDT for Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1996, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kimble County, TX, Sutton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 3217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.2
Supercell composite: -3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 300411
TORSJT
TXC267-435-300500-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1112 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

   ...WESTERN KIMBLE COUNTY

IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS

   ...EASTERN SUTTON COUNTY
 
AT 1108 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY SAN ANGELO
DOPPLER RADAR 25 MILES WEST OF JUNCTION OR 20 MILES WEST NORTHWEST
OF TELEGRAPH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...ROOSEVELT AND
TELEGRAPH.  THIS TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO CROSS INTERSTATE 10 BY 1120
PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS.^..PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	63 min
May 29, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	60 min
May 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	62 min
May 29, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	64 min
May 29, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion	62 min
May 29, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	63 min
May 29, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Schleicher	60 min
May 29, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	66 min
May 29, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Menard	65 min
May 29, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	61 min
May 29, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	64 min
May 29, 9:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green	3 hr
May 29, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	61 min
May 29, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Menard	63 min
May 29, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Schleicher	63 min
May 29, 10:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Menard	3 hr
May 29, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	62 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.