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Tornado Warning 15, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT for Crockett County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crockett County, TX, Sutton 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 232145 TORSJT TXC105-435-232245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 444 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CROCKETT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 438 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CROCKETT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTH OF OZONA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... FARM TO MARKET ROAD 189 ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SONORA AT 5 PM HIGHWAY 277 ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF SONORA AT 515 PM ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES...AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. LAT...LON 3048 10142 3030 10141 3033 10032 3058 10040 $$
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, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 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, 11 hours 1 minute 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-154- 168-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED WORDING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 400 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... HASKELL...FISHER...JONES...NOLAN...COKE...STERLING...IRION... AND TOM GREEN A TONADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... THROCKMORTON...SHACKELFORD...TAYLOR...CALLAHAN...RUNNELS COLEMAN...BROWN...CONCHO...MCCULLOCH...AND SAN SABA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... CROCKETT...SCHLEICHER...SUTTON...MENARD...KIMBLE...AND MASON 23/HUBER
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, 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, 4:59 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.