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Tornado Warning 12, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 30, 2002Coke County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 1:48 PM CST for Coke County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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, 1:48 PM CST (19:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2002, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 27 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.

996 
WFUS54 KSJT 301948
TORSJT
TXC081-302015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
147 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 215 PM CST

* AT 145 PM CST...AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A          
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF BRONTE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER ROBERT LEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30  
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   BRONTE AT 200 PM CST

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. 
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING 
WINDS ARE LIKELY.

LAT...LON 3194 10060 3177 10052 3179 10024 3205 10027

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, 12:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke	53 min
Mar 30, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels	51 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

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.