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Tornado Warning 56, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 24, 2002Runnels County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2002, 8:57 PM CDT for Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 5 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 24, 2002, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Runnels County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ballinger, TX	Large tree limbs were snapped off, and a propane tank was blown over.
May 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Crews, TX
May 24, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Benoit, TX	Law enforcement reported a brief tornado over open country.
May 24, 9:46 PM CDT	Hail 1	Benoit, TX
May 24, 9:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ballinger, TX	Strong thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a truck. A few outbuildings were also destroyed.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 4382 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 250157
TORSJT
TXC399-250300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
856 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RUNNELS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 855 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES          
  EAST OF WINTERS...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   HATCHEL AT 915 PM CDT
   BENOIT AT 935 PM CDT

AT 849 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTERS 4 MILES NORTH 
OF WINTERS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AND ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE 
IN THE DARK. TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A STURDY BUILDING NOW

LAT...LON 3208 9971 3208 10010 3170 10013 3167 9973

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	60 min
May 24, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	66 min
May 24, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	65 min
May 24, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	55 min
May 24, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	78 min
May 24, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	2 hr
May 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	63 min
May 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	81 min
May 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	62 min
May 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	72 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	61 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	76 min
May 24, 9:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Runnels	3 hr
May 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels	75 min
May 24, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	70 min
May 24, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels	62 min
May 25, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	70 min
May 25, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	69 min
May 25, 12:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	67 min
May 25, 1:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	60 min
May 25, 1:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Shackelford	60 min
May 25, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	28 min
May 25, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	59 min
May 25, 2:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Shackelford	61 min
May 25, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	56 min
May 25, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	46 min
May 25, 4:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	4 hr
May 25, 8:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	69 min
May 25, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	33 min
May 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	69 min
May 25, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	61 min
May 25, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	59 min
May 25, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	56 min
May 25, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	56 min
May 25, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	67 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.