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Tornado Warning 50, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 8, 2002Brown County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 4:37 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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: May 8, 2002, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 5:06 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Lake Brownwood, TX	Golfball size hail reported just north of Lake Brownwood.
May 8, 5:24 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Lake Brownwood, TX	A person was injured when the vehicle they were driving was struck by baseball size hail and the windshield was broken. The injuries were from broken glass and hail stones. There was also some roof damage to houses.

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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 1115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 082137
TORSJT
TXC049-082230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
437 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 437 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROSS CUT...OR ABOUT 15 
MILES   NORTHEAST OF SANTA ANNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   CROSS CUT AT 450 PM CDT
   MAY AT 510 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 3204 9918 3180 9918 3194 9883 3207 9893
          3208 9908

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	58 min
May 7, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	54 min
May 7, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	58 min
May 7, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan	56 min
May 7, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	11 min
May 7, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	64 min
May 7, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	50 min
May 7, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	60 min
May 7, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan	29 min
May 7, 9:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Shackelford	56 min
May 7, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	39 min
May 7, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	66 min
May 7, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	65 min
May 7, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	36 min
May 7, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	79 min
May 8, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	67 min
May 8, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coleman	64 min
May 8, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	61 min
May 8, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown	23 min
May 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	57 min
May 8, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	64 min
May 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.