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Tornado Warning 58, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1997, 9:39 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tom Green County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | San Angelo, TX | One inch hail fell in the community of Grape Creek. |
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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
088 WFUS1 KSJT 170239 RRA TORSJT TXC451-170345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 939 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ...NORTHERN TOM GREEN COUNTY AT 938 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF SAN ANGELO OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAPE CREEK MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... GRAPE CREEK... CARLSBAD...NORTHERN SAN ANGELO AND HARRIET. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT... SEEK REFUGE IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS... BLANKETS... OR PILLOWS. &
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 16, 8:45 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 8:45 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 840 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 DISCUSSION DELAYED BY SEVERE WEATHER. POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT OF STORMS UNTIL DRY LINE OUT OF OUR CWA. THOSE STORMS CURRENTLY ACTIVE ARE REPORTED BY SPOTTERS TO HAVE CONSIDERABLE ROTATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 8:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
TXZ140-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 825 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 PM HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH MOVED ACROSS EASTERN BROWN COUNTY WHICH HAD A POSSIBLE DEVELOPING TORNADO HAD WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST INTO COMMANCHE COUNTY. THUS THE TORNADO WARNING FOR COMMANCHE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 8:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Schleicher | 76 min |
| Jun 16, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 76 min |
| Jun 16, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 78 min |
| Jun 16, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 92 min |
| Jun 16, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 46 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.