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Tornado Warning 8, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2001, 9:01 PM CDT for Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 8, 2001, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Callahan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 3809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
364 WFUS54 KSJT 090202 TORSJT TXC059-090245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 901 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALLAHAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 858 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PUTNAM...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF BAIRD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PUTNAM AT 925 PM CDT 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 3219 9949 3212 9932 3213 9916 3246 9914
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 37 min |
| Sep 8, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 41 min |
| Sep 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 30 min |
| Sep 8, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 57 min |
| Sep 8, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 43 min |
| Sep 8, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 54 min |
| Sep 9, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 46 min |
| Sep 9, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 29 min |
| Sep 9, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 60 min |
| Sep 9, 7:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard | 3 hr |
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.