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Tornado Warning 22, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 18, 2000, 9:46 PM CDT for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Coleman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 2268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
455 WFUS54 KSJT 190247 TORSJT TXC083-190345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 946 PM CDT THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLEMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 944 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MOZELLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANTA ANNA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TRICKHAM AT 1045 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 3171 9955 3153 9959 3149 9921 3168 9921 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, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 57 min |
| May 18, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 55 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.