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Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 10:50 PM CDT for Kimble County, Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2001, 10:50 PM CDT (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2001, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kimble County, TX, Menard County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2079 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 110350 TORSJT TXC267-327-110445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1050 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MENARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS KIMBLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1046 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN SUTTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 26 MILES EAST OF SONORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 42 min |
| Apr 10, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 41 min |
| Apr 10, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 67 min |
| Apr 10, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 10:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 38 min |
| Apr 10, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels | 58 min |
| Apr 11, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 56 min |
| Apr 11, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard, Schleicher | 66 min |
| Apr 11, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 31 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.