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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 11, 1997Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 1997, 4:02 AM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 11, 1997, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 1997, 5:05 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 11, 4:25 AM CDT	Hail 1.25	Dyess Afb, TX	Hail fell over much of the Abilene metropolitan area but there was little damage.
Apr 11, 5:10 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	View, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 11, 3:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 1544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 110903 RRA
TORSJT
TXC441-111005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
402 AM CDT FRI APR 11 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 505 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...TAYLOR COUNTY
 
AT 359 AM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY SAN ANGELO
DOPPLER RADAR 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABILENE OR 15 MILES WEST
SOUTHWEST OF BUFFALO GAP MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...BUFFALO GAP...
OVALO...TUSCOLA...ROGERS AND ABILENE. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE
ABILENE AREA BY 425 AM. WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AND ONE INCH HAIL
MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 11, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mitchell	73 min
Apr 11, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	64 min
Apr 11, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	63 min
Apr 11, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	79 min
Apr 11, 3:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan	49 min
Apr 11, 4:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	78 min
Apr 11, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	62 min
Apr 11, 5:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.