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Tornado Warning 45, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 10, 2003Shackelford County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2003, 9:04 PM CDT for Shackelford 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
Jun 10, 2003, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Shackelford 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1559 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

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

305 
WFUS54 KSJT 110204
TORSJT
TXC417-110300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
902 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SHACKELFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 900 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME ENTERING NORTHWESTERN SHACKELFORD COUNTY 21 MILES 
  NORTHWEST OF ALBANY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   ALBANY AT 935 PM CDT

DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM AND A TORNADO MAY
FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES.
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS. LARGE HAIL WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. 

LAT...LON 3295 9959 3264 9960 3258 9914 3290 9912

$$

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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 Jun 10, 3:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 4 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
300 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

CHANCES ARE LOOKING BETTER THIS AFTERNOON FOR PRECIP AS CONVECTIVE
INHIBITION DECREASES AND DRY LINE MIXES EAST AND INTERACTS WITH OLD
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA. LATEST SURFACE OBS HAS DRY
LINE EXTENDING FROM EAST OF FORT STOCKTON TO THE CENTRAL PANHANDLE
WITH STORMS ALREADY KICKING UP WEST OF CROCKETT COUNTY...ALTHOUGH
INTENSITY OF STORMS HAVE DECREASED THE LAST SEVERAL SCANS. ACTIVITY
THAT DOES DEVELOP LATER SHOULD REMAIN ISOLATED BUT COULD EASILY
REACH SEVERE CRITERIA WITH LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. CHANCE OF
STORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING AS DRY LINE CONTINUES TO EDGE
EAST POSSIBLY AS FAR AS THE WESTERN CWA. THIS EVENING SHOULD ALSO
SEE AN INCREASE IN LLJ ACTIVITY WITH A SHORTWAVE TROF ADVERTISED BY
THE LATEST MESO ETA CROSSING THE CWA EMBEDDED IN WEST WINDS ALOFT.

PERIODIC IMPULSES EMBEDDED IN THE WEST FLOW ALOFT AND AN ACTIVE
DRYLINE WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF PRECIP IN THE FORECAST INTO THE
WEEKEND. AS THE WEAK UPPER RIDGE OVER TEXAS CONTINUES TO BREAK
DOWN... AVN BRINGS A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON
SUNDAY WITH GOOD CHANCE OF ACCOMPANYING PRECIP AND A RETURN TO A
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. AS UPPER TROUGH AXIS DEVELOPS FROM EASTERN
TEXAS TO THE GREAT LAKES INTO THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK THE AREA
WILL CONTINUE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. GIVEN A
SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGH PASSAGES EMBEDDED THIS NORTHWEST FLOW
THROUGH THE EXTENDED....CHANCE OF PRECIP WILL CONTINUE. MRF BEGINS
TO BUILD AN UPPER RIDGE OVER SOUTHERN ROCKIES BY THE END OF NEXT
WEEK WHICH SHOULD SHUNT PRECIP TO OUR EAST.

ABI 071/094/071/095 3232
SJT 071/095/072/095 3222
JCT 072/094/074/094 3222

.SJT...NONE.

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 2:19 PM CDT, 6 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-111915-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
219 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

A NIGHT TIME THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO PUSH
SOUTHEAST...MAINLY THROUGH THE BIG COUNTRY. HOWEVER THIS COMPLEX MAY
AFFECT AREAS FURTHER SOUTH...INCLUDING THE CONCHO VALLEY AND THE
HEARTLAND. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS WILL
BE THE GREATEST CONCERNS WITH THESE STORMS WITH ONLY AN ISOLATED
HAIL THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NIGHT TIME STORM COMPLEXES WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND PUSH ACROSS
AT LEAST PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS DURING THE EVENING...THROUGH
THE REST OF THE WEEK..

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY THIS EVENING.

27/BRAZZELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell52 min
Jun 10, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTHaskell, Jones58 min
Jun 10, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton61 min
Jun 11, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling66 min
Jun 11, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell27 min
Jun 11, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell32 min
Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton60 min
Jun 11, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher64 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling33 min
Jun 11, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell60 min
Jun 11, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke88 min
Jun 11, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTHaskell49 min
Jun 11, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor56 min
Jun 11, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCoke, Tom Green53 min
Jun 11, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher57 min
Jun 11, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTThrockmorton57 min
Jun 11, 6:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCoke3 hr
Jun 11, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman32 min
Jun 11, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan61 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.