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Tornado Warning 25, NWS San Angelo, TX

November 23, 1996Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 1996, 10:37 PM CST for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
Nov 23, 1996, 10:37 PM CST (04:37 UTC)
Expired
Nov 23, 1996, 11:40 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 23, 10:45 PM CSTThunderstorm Wind 70San Angelo, 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 229 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1052 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 23, 8:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett94 min
Nov 23, 9:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett, Irion, Tom Green60 min
Nov 23, 9:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling60 min
Nov 23, 9:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown60 min
Nov 23, 10:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Tom Green73 min
Nov 23, 10:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher, Sutton65 min
Nov 23, 10:38 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTTom Green67 min
Nov 23, 10:48 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTTom Green3 hr
Nov 23, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, Runnels75 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.