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Tornado Warning 17, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT for Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 29, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1996, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callahan County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Aug 29, 1:58 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 1:58 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 117 min |
| Aug 29, 5:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble, Sutton | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard, Schleicher | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Mason | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 10:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 8 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.