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Tornado Warning 10, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 30, 2002Coke County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 12:52 PM CST for Coke County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2002, 12:52 PM CST (18:52 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2002, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coke County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

799 
WFUS54 KSJT 301852
TORSJT
TXC081-301945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1251 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 1246 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANCO...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ROBERT LEE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE CITY OF ROBERT LEE. 
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS ROTATION WITH THIS STORM AND A TORNADO MAY FORM 
AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE 
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3205 10060 3190 10070 3176 10044 3203 10029

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 7:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	43 min
Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	30 min
Mar 29, 7:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	38 min
Mar 29, 8:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke, Sterling	49 min
Mar 29, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	40 min
Mar 29, 9:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	24 min
Mar 29, 9:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	47 min
Mar 29, 9:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	48 min
Mar 29, 10:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	46 min
Mar 29, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	46 min
Mar 29, 11:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	66 min
Mar 30, 12:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, McCulloch	50 min
Mar 30, 1:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	54 min
Mar 30, 1:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	52 min
Mar 30, 4:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	61 min
Mar 30, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels	51 min
Mar 30, 1:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke	27 min
Mar 30, 2:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	60 min
Mar 30, 2:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	21 min
Mar 30, 2:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	35 min
Mar 30, 2:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	56 min
Mar 30, 2:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	38 min
Mar 30, 3:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	56 min
Mar 30, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	59 min
Mar 30, 3:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	33 min
Mar 30, 5:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	35 min

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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.