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Tornado Warning 27, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sutton County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Sonora, TX | A storm spotter tracked a tornado for 7 minutes in extreme southern Sutton County, remaining south of Interstate 10. Damage was light. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
246 WFUS54 KSJT 282336 TORSJT TXC435-290000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 636 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 634 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SUTTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF SONORA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3043 10078 3026 10073 3032 10029 3054 10035 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 55 min |
| Oct 28, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 74 min |
| Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 72 min |
| Oct 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.