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Tornado Warning 24, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 13, 2002Irion County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2002, 5:31 PM CDT for Irion County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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: Apr 13, 2002, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Irion County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 1027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1742 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 132231
TORSJT
TXC235-451-132330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
531 PM CDT SAT APR 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TOM GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  IRION COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARDEN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  SOUTH OF STERLING CITY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   ARDEN AT 630 PM CDT

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3156 10117 3139 10072 3156 10062 3156 10116

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	29 min
Apr 12, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	48 min
Apr 12, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	60 min
Apr 12, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	62 min
Apr 12, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	54 min
Apr 13, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	64 min
Apr 13, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	63 min
Apr 13, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	55 min
Apr 13, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Menard	37 min
Apr 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	65 min
Apr 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Mason	53 min
Apr 13, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	62 min
Apr 13, 6:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason	3 hr

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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.