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Tornado Warning 9, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 9:28 PM CST for Nolan County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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, 9:28 PM CST (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Nolan County, TX, Taylor 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 300328 TORSJT TXC353-441-300415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 928 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY WEST CENTRAL TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN NOLAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CST * AT 923 PM CST...AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HYLTON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF BLACKWELL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HAPPY VALLEY AT 935 PM CST TUSCOLA AT 1005 PM CST A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LAT...LON 3222 10037 3210 10025 3210 9978 3225 9982
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, 8:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling | 49 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, 9:42 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.