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Tornado Warning 39, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 8:53 PM CDT for Callahan County, Jones County, Shackelford County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 15, 2003, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Callahan County, TX, Jones County, TX, Shackelford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 2441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KSJT 160153
TORSJT
TXC059-253-417-160300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
853 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SHACKELFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
JONES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
CALLAHAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 849 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT
ANY TIME 11 MILES SOUTH OF NUGENT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
ABILENE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
ALBANY AT 935 PM CDT
MORAN AT 945 PM CDT
IBEX AT 950 PM CDT
TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AND ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE
IN THE DARK. TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF A STURDY BUILDING NOW.
LAT...LON 3274 9974 3254 9974 3252 9963 3236 9913
3275 9912
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 34 min |
| May 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 62 min |
| May 15, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 55 min |
| May 15, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 25 min |
| May 15, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 36 min |
| May 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 60 min |
| May 16, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 55 min |
| May 16, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 66 min |
| May 16, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 56 min |
| May 16, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 64 min |
| May 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 26 min |
| May 16, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 62 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.