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Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 5, 2003Haskell County, Throckmorton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2003, 4:19 PM CST for Haskell County, Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 5, 2003, 4:19 PM CST (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 2003, 5:15 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Haskell County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 5, 1:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 277 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
364 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 052219
TORSJT
TXC207-447-052315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
418 PM CST SAT APR 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  THROCKMORTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 415 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF IRBY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF HASKELL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   THROCKMORTON AT 455 PM CST
   WOODSON AT 505 PM CST
   ELBERT AT 515 PM CST

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

LAT...LON 3318 9967 3300 9964 3299 9896 3336 9896

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 2:25 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTFisher50 min
Apr 5, 3:28 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTHaskell, Jones62 min
Apr 5, 4:42 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTShackelford48 min

Nearby

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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.