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Tornado Warning 16, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2000, 5:57 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2000, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Throckmorton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 302258 TORSJT TTAA00 KSJT 302257 TXC447-302345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 557 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... THROCKMORTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELBERT...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF THROCKMORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ELBERT AT 605 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES...AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. LAT...LON 3328 9913 3311 9904 3314 9895 3335 9896 TEW
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Haskell | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 77 min |
| Apr 30, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 32 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.