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Tornado Warning 28, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 6:57 PM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Sonora, TX | A tornado briefly touched down in extreme southeast Sutton County, toppling a few trees and causing minor structural damage. |
| Oct 28, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Sonora, TX |
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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 282358 TORSJT TXC435-290100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 657 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 800 PM CDT * AT 654 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL SUTTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTH OF SONORA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3041 10064 3028 10063 3029 10012 3049 10013 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, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 24 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.