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Tornado Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 18, 1996, 4:51 PM CDT for Callahan County, Shackelford County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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
- Sep 18, 1996, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Callahan County, TX, Shackelford County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 6:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Putnam, TX |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 1067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 182149 TORSJT TXC059-417-182300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 451 PM CDT WED SEP 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...NORTHWESTERN CALLAHAN COUNTY ...SOUTHWESTERN SHACKELFORD COUNTY AT 445 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY SAN ANGELO DOPPLER RADAR ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ABILENE. AS THE POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVES EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH...IT WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF CALLAHAN AND SOUTHWEST SHACKELFORD COUNTIES. CLYDE AND BAIRD ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO. PEOPLE TRAVELING ALONG INTERSTATE 20 EAST OF ABILENE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STURDY STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SAFETY IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 10:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 44 min |
| Sep 18, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 59 min |
| Sep 18, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.