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Tornado Warning 41, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 10, 1998Jones County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 10:45 PM CDT for Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 10, 1998, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 11:35 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Jones County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 10, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2364 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.4

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The text

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

134 
WFUS1 KSJT 110346 RRA
TORSJT
TXC253-110435-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1045 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JONES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1135 PM CDT

* AT 1044 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR AT MORAN INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF ANSON MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LUEDERS AT 1100 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

MD

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 10, 8:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 8:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
843 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998

LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE
AREA AT ABOUT 30 KNOTS...WITH A HINT OF A BOW LIKELY TO MOVE
INTO THE WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THUS...NOT
MUCH TIME TO TALK. WITH AREA WIND PROFILES ALREADY SHOWING THE
LOW LEVEL JET INCREASING TO 50 KNOTS AND ABUNDANT DEEP MOISTURE...
STORMS SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. HAVE 50 TO 60
PERCENT POPS GOING ACROSS THE AREA...AND A MENTION OF SEVERE AND
HEAVY RAIN. FORECASTS LOOK GOOD FOR NOW.

07

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Mitchell, Nolan	63 min
Jun 10, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	62 min
Jun 10, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	62 min
Jun 10, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	64 min
Jun 10, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	62 min
Jun 10, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	64 min
Jun 10, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	64 min
Jun 10, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	61 min
Jun 11, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	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.