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Tornado Warning 2, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 19, 2002Concho County, Runnels County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 1:48 PM CST for Concho County, Runnels County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2002, 1:48 PM CST (19:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2002, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Concho County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 19, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado F1	Veribest, TX	A tornado traveled a 4 mile path across eastern Tom Green County, producing relatively minor damage. The tornado ripped part of a flat roof off of an outbuilding, threw several irrigation pipes a few hundred yards, and picked up and moved heavy steel pipes.
Mar 19, 2:13 PM CST	Tornado F0	Ballinger, TX	A tornado briefly touched down in an open field south of the town of Ballinger.

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
Mar 19, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 191948
TORSJT
TXC095-399-451-192045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
146 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RUNNELS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  NORTHEASTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  NORTHERN CONCHO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 245 PM CST

* AT 143 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO OVER VERIBEST...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF SAN   
ANGELO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
TORNADOES.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE PASS NEAR...
   HARRIET...MILES...LOWAKE...ROWENA...BALLINGER 

ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES...AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY
BUILDING. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH
AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3153 10038 3138 10027 3147 9993 3164 9977
          3183 9992 3169 10023

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion	40 min
Mar 19, 3:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	32 min
Mar 19, 4:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason, Menard	28 min
Mar 19, 8:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	52 min
Mar 19, 9:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	53 min
Mar 19, 12:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	29 min
Mar 19, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	34 min
Mar 19, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	36 min
Mar 19, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	56 min
Mar 19, 1:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	40 min
Mar 19, 1:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Tom Green	92 min
Mar 19, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	35 min
Mar 19, 2:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	43 min
Mar 19, 3:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Menard, Schleicher	61 min
Mar 19, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Menard	57 min
Mar 19, 4:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	McCulloch	53 min
Mar 19, 5:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	McCulloch	3 hr
Mar 19, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	60 min
Mar 19, 5:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Brown, San Saba	3 hr
Mar 19, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	San Saba	41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.