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Tornado Warning 71, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 13, 2002Jones County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2002, 7:34 PM CDT for Jones 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
Jun 13, 2002, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jones County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 12 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-455 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 140034
TORSJT
TXC253-140115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
734 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 731 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANSON...MOVING SOUTH AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   HAWLEY AT 745 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 3280 9974 3280 9996 3254 9998 3253 9972

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTTaylor59 min
Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell54 min
Jun 13, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Sterling, Tom Green52 min
Jun 13, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett71 min
Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor30 min
Jun 13, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels83 min
Jun 13, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Tom Green58 min
Jun 13, 9:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTIrion2 hr
Jun 13, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTShackelford55 min
Jun 13, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher58 min
Jun 13, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell63 min
Jun 13, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett, Sutton57 min
Jun 13, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTShackelford12 min
Jun 13, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green58 min
Jun 13, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones63 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.