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Tornado Warning 7, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 8:11 PM CST for Coke County, Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 29, 2002, 8:11 PM CST (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Coke County, TX, Sterling 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 29, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 300211 TORSJT TXC081-431-300300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 811 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STERLING COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS WESTERN COKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 807 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SILVER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF STERLING CITY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SILVER AT 845 PM CST A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3202 10114 3184 10109 3183 10064 3208 10059
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 43 min |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 9:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 24 min |
| Mar 29, 9:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 1:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 12:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 1:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 2:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 21 min |
| Mar 30, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 2:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 2:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 3:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 3:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 35 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.