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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 23, 2003Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2003, 3:16 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: Apr 23, 2003, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County 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
Apr 23, 11:50 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -295 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

978 
WUUS54 KSJT 232016
SVRSJT
TXC441-232045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
316 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 312 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ABILENE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING...AND STAY IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS QUARTERS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MOVE TO 
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY 
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3250 9985 3235 9972 3237 9965 3251 9966

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	39 min
Apr 23, 1:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	41 min
Apr 23, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	63 min
Apr 23, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	42 min
Apr 23, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	56 min
Apr 23, 1:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	54 min
Apr 23, 1:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	65 min
Apr 23, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	59 min
Apr 23, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	42 min
Apr 23, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	53 min
Apr 23, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	58 min
Apr 23, 2:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	61 min
Apr 23, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	60 min
Apr 23, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	56 min
Apr 23, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	46 min
Apr 23, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	44 min
Apr 23, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	64 min
Apr 23, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	62 min
Apr 23, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Menard, Schleicher	61 min
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	60 min
Apr 23, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	59 min
Apr 23, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	54 min
Apr 23, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	46 min
Apr 23, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	60 min
Apr 23, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	46 min
Apr 23, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	30 min
Apr 23, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	48 min
Apr 23, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman	79 min
Apr 23, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	79 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.