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Tornado Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 18, 2000, 8:48 PM CDT for Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- May 18, 2000, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Runnels County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
812 WFUS54 KSJT 190149 TORSJT TXC399-190245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 848 PM CDT THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUNNELS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 844 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL RUNNELS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROWENA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3172 9999 3160 9999 3159 9973 3176 9973 MG
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 81 min |
| May 18, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 97 min |
| May 18, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 42 min |
| May 18, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 55 min |
| May 18, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman | 59 min |
| May 18, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 60 min |
| May 18, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 86 min |
| May 18, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 55 min |
| May 18, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 45 min |
| May 18, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 63 min |
| May 19, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 48 min |
| May 19, 3:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 118 min |
| May 19, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 53 min |
| May 19, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 26 min |
| May 19, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 48 min |
| May 19, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 59 min |
| May 19, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 52 min |
| May 19, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 45 min |
| May 19, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Sutton | 25 min |
| May 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 53 min |
| May 19, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 57 min |
| May 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.