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Tornado Warning 50, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 15, 1997Crockett County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1997, 11:26 PM CDT for Crockett County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 15, 1997, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1997, 12:10 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Crockett County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 160426 RRA
TORSJT
TXC105-160510-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1126 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1210 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS

   ...SOUTHWESTERN CROCKETT COUNTY
 
AT 1122 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT SAN ANGELO INDICATED A TORNADO 41
MILES SOUTHWEST OF OZONA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL CROSS FM 2083 BETWEEN 1145 AND MIDNIGHT.

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

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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 Jun 15, 9:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 9:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
906 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997

FTW ZONE UPDATE APPEARS SUFFICIENT AS MOST OF THE CURRENT ACTIVITY IS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30-35 MPH INTO THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY AND
NORTHERN HEARTLAND. EXPECT ONLY BRIEF AND MINOR FLOODING TO BE
POSSIBLE OVER THESE AREAS WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS EXPECTED TO REMAIN
LESS THAN AN INCH. DONT SEE NEED TO CANCEL FFA FOR OTHER AREAS AS
LOWEST FFG VALUES OVER THE WESTERN BIG COUNTRY WHERE LESS ACTIVITY IS
EXPECTED. ANOTHER WAVE OF ACTIVITY SEEN BY SATELLITE AND KMAF DOPPLER
WILL AFFECT THE AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...BUT MOST ACTIVITY
SEEMS TO BE FOLLOWING THE DEEPER THETA-E MOISTURE TO THE SOUTH. DIME
SIZED HAIL IS THE ONLY SEVERE REPORT SO FAR...BUT VIEW IRION STORM
INDICATED A MICROBURST OVER RURAL AREAS. STORMS ARE ALSO SHOWING WEAK
ROTATION...BUT SPEED SHEAR FROM UPPER JET APPEARS TO BE KNOCKING OFF
THE TOPS OF THE STORMS...SO SUPE RCELL DEVELOPMENT WILL BE HARD TO
COME BY. WITH LATEST UPDATES ALREADY IN FROM SAT AND FTW...CURRENT
FORECASTS ARE ON TRACK.

OAKS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	64 min
Jun 15, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	50 min
Jun 15, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	63 min
Jun 16, 1:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	4 hr
Jun 16, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	65 min
Jun 16, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	64 min
Jun 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	79 min
Jun 16, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	49 min
Jun 16, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	62 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	48 min
Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	35 min
Jun 16, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	49 min
Jun 16, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	48 min
Jun 16, 6:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	4 hr
Jun 16, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	61 min
Jun 16, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.