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Tornado Warning 14, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2003, 3:59 PM CDT for Menard County, Schleicher County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Menard County, TX, Schleicher County, TX
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
410 WFUS54 KSJT 232059 TORSJT TXC327-413-232200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 359 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCHLEICHER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS MENARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 353 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT MCKAVETT...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELDORADO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FORT MCKAVETT AT 430 PM CDT A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3107 10055 3090 10055 3078 9994 3101 9988 $$ 04
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Apr 23, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 235 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003 BUSY AFTERNOON SO NOT MUCH DISCUSSION SEVERE WEATHER WILL MOVE OUT...LEAVING CLEAR SKIES AND SEASONAL TEMPS. FIRST PERIOD WILL CONTEND WITH SOME LEFT OVER PRECIP. PRELIM CCF... ABI 053/083/050/081 -000 SJT 053/084/052/084 0000 JCT 052/083/050/084 1000 .SJT...NONE. 25
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 5:44 AM CDT, 10 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-241045- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 544 AM CDT WED APR 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE BIG COUNTRY AND ALL OF THE HEARTLAND COUNTIES TODAY. THIS MODERATE RISK AREA IS NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM ASPERMONT TO JUST WEST OF ABILENE AND BALLINGER TO BRADY AND SAN SABA. ELSEWHERE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM ROTAN TO ROBERT LEE...SAN ANGELO...ELDORADO AND SONORA. THE DRYLINE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL CAUSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE WILL BE SUFFICIENT SHEAR FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MODERATE RISK AREA. INTERESTED PERSONS WILL WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO LATER FORECAST CONCERNING THIS THUNDERSTORM EVENT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. 27/BRAZZELL
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, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett, Sutton | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 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.