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Tornado Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2003, 8:56 PM CDT for Runnels 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 29, 2003, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Runnels 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 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 300156 TORSJT TXC399-300300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 855 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUNNELS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME NEAR HATCHEL...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF BALLINGER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 3 MILES NORTH OF BALLINGER A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3180 10010 3172 9991 3179 9970 3203 9993 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 8:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Nolan | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 47 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.