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Tornado Warning 28, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 3, 2003, 7:22 PM CDT for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
- May 3, 2003, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Haskell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 040022 TORSJT TXC207-040115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 721 PM CDT SAT MAY 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 716 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HASKELL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... IRBY AT 745 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM AND A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW LAW ENFOREMENT REPORTED BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILE SOUTH OF HASKELL AT 720 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3323 9981 3306 9988 3296 9947 3320 9947 $$
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 May 3, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 215 PM CDT SAT MAY 3 2003 PRIMARY FORECASTS CONCERNS ARE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THIS EVENING AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON OVER THE EAST. 18Z SURFACE MAP SHOWS A DRYLINE EXTENDING FROM THE NW TIP OF CROCKETT COUNTY...NORTHWARD INTO THE SOUTH PLAINS...SW OF LUBBOCK. 19Z GOES VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWS DEVELOPING CU NEAR THE EXPECTED DRYLINE POSITION...EAST OF KFST. 15Z RUC PROGS THE DRYLINE TO MAKE LITTLE EASTWARD PROGRESS THIS AFTERNOON...ALTHOUGH SOME DRIER MID LEVEL AIR IS PROGGED TO MIX TO THE SURFACE OVER THE WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY AND WESTERN BIG COUNTRY. 12Z MESOETA BOUNDARY LAYER CAPE/CINH PROG IS IN LINE WITH THE 06Z RUN IN DEVELOPING 3000+ J/KG BOUNDARY LAYER CAPE WITH NO CAP BY 21Z OVER THE HEARTLAND AND EASTERN BIG COUNTRY. UNLIKE FRIDAY...12Z MAF SOUNDING HAD MOISTURE IN THE LOWER LEVELS...WITH 17C DEWPOINTS UP TO 840MB. AS IT IS PRONE TO DO...THE MESOETA MAY BE MIXING THE DRYLINE TOO FAR EAST THIS AFTERNOON. FOLLOWING RUC SOLUTION...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO COULD DEVELOP AS FAR WEST AS THE SAN ANGELO AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. 18Z FWD SOUNDING SHOWS WEAK CAPPING...WITH EASILY REACHED CONVECTIVE TEMP INFERRED FOR OUR EASTERN BIG COUNTRY COUNTIES. ENTRANCE REGION OF LOW LEVEL JET WILL SET UP OVER WC TX TONIGHT... WITH NO LARGE AREAS OF ORGANIZED MOISTURE CONVERGENCE EXPECTED. IN RESPONSE TO A SHORTWAVE TROF PASSAGE SUNDAY AFTERNOON...THE MESOETA BRINGS THE DRYLINE THROUGH MOST OF WC TX. AVN MAV GUIDANCE IN AGREEMENT...WITH MID UPPER 40S DEWPOINTS AT KABI/KSJT AND MID 60S DEWPOINTS AT KSJT. CURRENT ISC GRIDS INDICATE NO CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HEARTLAND/NW HILL COUNTRY FOR SUNDAY...BUT WE HAVE RESERVATIONS CONCERNING UNDERESTIMATED MESOETA BOUNDARY LATER CAPE IN THE PRESENCE OF STRONG LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WILL LIKELY ADJUST GRIDS AND MAINTAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FROM THE PREVIOUS FORECAST OVER THE HEARTLAND/NW HILL COUNTRY. SHORTWAVE RIDGING ALOFT SHOULD KEEP A LID ON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT MONDAY...BUT APPROACHING SHORTWAVE TROF SHOULD COOL MID LEVEL TEMPS SUFFICIENTLY TO HELP STORMS FIRE OVER THE EAST ON TUESDAY. PERSISTENCE APPEARS TO BE BEST FORECAST THROUGH LATE NEXT WEEK... UNDER WEAK CONVECTIVE CAP. ABI 071/093/063/088/061 22101 SJT 072/095/065/091/063 11101 JCT 070/090/064/092/062 22111 .SJT...NONE. 14
Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 2:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-041345- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 206 PM CDT SAT MAY 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM SAN ANGELO TO SAN SABA. THIS AFTERNOON...A WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON COUNTIES...WHILE THE DRYLINE WAS CONTINUING TO GET BETTER ORGANIZED FROM NEAR LUBBOCK SOUTH TO ODESSA TO NEAR FORT STOCKTON. MEANWHILE...THE LOW CLOUDS THAT WERE OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING HAVE PRETTY MUCH ERODED ALLOWING SIGNIFICANT HEATING TO TAKE OCCUR...AND WITH SUFFICIENT MOISTURE IN PLACE...THE ATMOSPHERE IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE. WARMER TEMPERATURES ALOFT HAVE RESULTED IN A CAP THAT WILL ACT TO PREVENT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. HOWEVER AS THE DRYLINE PUSHES EAST...AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA FROM NEW MEXICO...THE CAP MAY WEAKEN ENOUGH TO ALLOW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THE BEST CHANCES OF THIS OCCURRING IS OVER THE BIG COUNTRY. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ISOLATED...THE STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BECOME RAPIDLY SEVERE AND PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE WILL ALSO BE SUFFICIENT WIND SHEAR FOR TORNADOES ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. IF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN GET GOING...THEY SHOULD BEGIN TO FORM BETWEEN 4 AND 7 PM CDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK AS A FRONT INTERACTS WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... IF THUNDERSTORMS CAN BREAK THE CAP...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY OVER THE BIG COUNTRY. 27/BRAZZELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 64 min |
| May 3, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 31 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.