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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 23, 2003Crockett County, Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2003, 3:41 PM CDT for Crockett County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crockett County, TX, Sutton 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, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 1151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 11.1

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The text

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

286 
WFUS54 KSJT 232041
TORSJT
TXC105-435-232145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
339 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST CROCKETT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 333 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SOUTHEASTERN CROCKETT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 24
  MILES SOUTH OF OZONA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE ALONG HIGHWAY 277...20 MILES SOUTH OF SONONA 
AROUND 440 PM. LARGE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH 
THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3049 10118 3030 10123 3031 10067 3046 10071

$$

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, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	29 min
Apr 23, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	44 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

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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.