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Tornado Warning 34, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2003, 5:24 PM CDT for Crockett County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 9, 2003, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crockett 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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 4389 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
202 WFUS54 KSJT 092224 TORSJT TXC105-092330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 523 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CROCKETT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME 2 MILES WEST OF SHEFFIELD NEAR INTERSTATE 10...OR 39 MILES WEST OF OZONA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... ALONG INTERSTATE 10...20 MILES WEST OF OZONA AT 600 PM CDT A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3081 10182 3060 10161 3058 10113 3099 10116 $$ 24
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 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 300 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 CURRENT...DRYLINE HAS SHOWN LITTLE EASTWARD MOVEMENT THROUGH THE DAY AND CONTINUES TO REMAIN BETWEEN SAN ANGELO AND MIDLAND BEFORE ANGLING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN BIG COUNTRY. SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY STILL CONTINUING NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 WHERE AMPLE SUNSHINE HAS PROVIDED ENOUGH INSTABILITY. UNTIL UPPER LOW NOW CENTERED OVER UTAH BEGINS TO MOVE EAST...DRYLINE SHOULD STAY TO OUR WEST. UPPER LOW WILL MOVE EAST TO CENTRAL COLORADO BY TOMORROW MORNING PUSHING THE DRYLINE TO THE EAST...CLEARING OUR EASTERN COUNTIES BY EARLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. CANNOT RULE OUT CHANCE OF THUNDER AS DRYLINE BEGINS TO MOVE EAST THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE NIGHT IN RESPONSE TO THE EASTWARD MOVING UPPER LOW. WILL INCLUDE CHANCE OF PRECIP IN EASTERN COUNTIES TOMORROW WITH PRECIP CHANCES ENDING BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON AS WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA. FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL STALL ALONG THE TEXAS COAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND BEGIN TO DRIFT BACK TO THE NORTH. PRECIP CHANCES FOR LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY DEPEND ON POSITION OF RETREATING FRONTAL BOUNDARY. WILL MAINTAIN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH MID WEAK AS WEAK IMPULSES IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT INTERACT WITH OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY. RAIN CHANCES WILL DIMINISH ON THURSDAY AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. AFTER A SHORT RESPITE...RAIN CHANCES WILL RETURN AS THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM DIGS INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ON FRIDAY. CCF... ABI 067/089/056/085 2-0 SJT 068/092/058/090 200 JCT 069/092/059/089 120 .SJT...NONE. 15
Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 2:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-101900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 205 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THE DRYLINE REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY FROM ROUGHLY CHILDRESS TO BIG SPRING TO FORT STOCKTON. A FEW THUNDERSTROMS HAVE FIRED ON THE DRYLINE THROUGH THE DAY AND STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP INTO THE EVENING HOURS... ESPECIALLY OVER THE BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE HEARTLAND WHERE THE CAP WILL BE THE WEAKEST AND THERE HAS BEEN MORE SUNSHINE TODAY. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP HAVE ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND SHEAR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERCELLS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 43 min |
| May 9, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 47 min |
| May 9, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 40 min |
| May 9, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 59 min |
| May 9, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 33 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.