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Tornado Warning 51, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2002, 5:22 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 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, 5:24 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. |
| May 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | De Leon, TX |
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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 082222 TORSJT TXC049-082245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 522 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 545 PM CDT * AT 522 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF BROWNWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3194 9911 3182 9896 3206 9863 3222 9882
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 8, 5:05 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 5:05 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 505 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 SENT A QUICK UPDATE TO ADD TORNADO WATCH TO CENTRAL AND EASTERN ZONES. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER CHANGES. .SJT...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR THESE COUNTIES... BROWN...CALLAHAN...COLEMAN...CONCHO...MASON...MENARD... MCCULLOCH...RUNNELS...SAN SABA...SCHLEICHER...TOM GREEN 23/HUBER **** 310 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 DISCUSSION FOLLOWS **** DRYLINE WAS ALONG WESTERN BOUNDARY OF CWA THIS AFTERNOON. LINE OF CLOUDS IN VISIBLE IMAGERY SEEMINGLY ALIGNED WITH DRYLINE FROM FT STOCKTON TO CHILDRESS APPEARS TO BE ALTOCUMULUS INSTEAD OF CUMULUS. SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS ALOFT WERE BRINGING IN DRIER AIR OVER REGION. IN ADDITION SUBSIDENCE CONDITIONS WERE MOVING INTO TO THE REGION BEHIND UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE...AS INDICATED IN THE WATER VAPOR LOOP. RAIN CHANCES QUITE LOW TONIGHT WITH ABOVE CONDITIONS. CAN NOT REALLY RULE OUT AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM HOWEVER. CAPES WILL RANGE FROM ZERO OVER WESTERN HALF TO AROUND 1500 J/KG OVER EXTREME EASTERN SECTIONS. THINKING AT THIS TIME...IS TO HAVE A 10 PERCENT CHANCE OF STORMS ONLY IN EASTERN ZONES. COLD FRONT MOVES IN EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL BE LIMITED IN SOUTHERN ZONES WITH FRONT COMING IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTY AND NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU...WHERE FRONT WILL BE LOCATED IN THE AFTERNOON AT TIME OF MAXIMUM HEATING. THURSDAY EVENING AND FRIDAY....MOIST AIR RETURNS WITH WARM FRONT... AND WEAK SHORTWAVES...SMALL POPS WARRANTED. SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE SUNDAY NIGHT AS COLD FRONT COMES THROUGH. SLIGHT CHANCES OF RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY WITH MOISTURE RETURNING FROM GULF. PRELIM CCF... ABI 061/080/058/084/068 --12 SJT 064/086/062/087/068 --22 JCT 066/089/066/087/068 1122 .SJT...NONE. 04
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 8, 2:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-082330- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 224 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED...BUT NOT LIKELY. THE DRYLINE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON THIS WILL CAUSE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO DROP RATHER QUICKLY. THERE IS A VERY SMALL CHANCE THAT THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE LATE IN THE DAY MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN COUNTIES. ONE OR TWO OF THE STORMS COULD APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. AREAS WEST OF A THROCKMORTON...COLEMAN...MENARD LINE WILL NOT SEE ANY AFTERNOON RAIN. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE SEE STATEMENTS AND OUTLOOKS FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES ACROSS TEXAS...OKLAHOMA...AND NEW MEXICO.
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, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 53 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 |
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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.