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Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 19, 2002Coleman County, Runnels County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 2:47 PM CST for Coleman County, Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 19, 2002, 2:47 PM CST (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2002, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Coleman County, TX, Runnels 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
Mar 19, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 192047
TORSJT
TXC083-399-192130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RUNNELS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  COLEMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 243 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE EAST OF 
TALPA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF BALLINGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 
MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   GLEN COVE...VALERA...COLEMAN.  

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 3181 9987 3167 9973 3176 9939 3196 9927
          3207 9946

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, 1:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	57 min
Mar 19, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	35 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

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.