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Tornado Warning 28, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 4, 2002Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2002, 8:10 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 20 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: May 4, 2002, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tom Green 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
May 4, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 806 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 050110
TORSJT
TXC451-050130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
809 PM CDT SAT MAY 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 808 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY CONCHO COUNTY LAW        
  ENFORCEMENT NEAR VANCOURT...IN EXTREME EASTERN TOM GREEN           
  COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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 3144 10016 3130 10016 3130 10012 3144 10012

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Tom Green	115 min
May 4, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	65 min
May 4, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	71 min
May 4, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho	70 min
May 4, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	61 min
May 4, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	47 min
May 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	45 min
May 4, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	41 min
May 4, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Concho	3 hr
May 4, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Concho	63 min
May 4, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	McCulloch	72 min
May 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	35 min
May 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho	60 min
May 4, 9:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	34 min
May 4, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	73 min
May 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	49 min
May 4, 9:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	McCulloch	3 hr
May 4, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	62 min
May 4, 10:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	McCulloch	43 min
May 4, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	65 min
May 4, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	San Saba	57 min
May 4, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	63 min
May 4, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	42 min
May 4, 11:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	San Saba	31 min
May 4, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	74 min
May 4, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	28 min
May 4, 11:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan	63 min
May 5, 12:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	63 min
May 5, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	44 min
May 5, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	33 min
May 5, 2:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	45 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.