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Tornado Warning 6, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2002, 5:34 PM CST for San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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, 5:34 PM CST (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County San Saba 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 |
| Mar 19, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 192334 TORSJT TXC411-200015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 534 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SAN SABA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 530 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ALGERITA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ALGERITA AT 540 PM CST SAN SABA AT 545 PM CST A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3115 9901 3099 9892 3111 9854 3133 9867
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, 2:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 43 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 |
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.