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Tornado Warning 57, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2003, 4:00 AM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 15, 2003, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2003, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sutton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 3317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 150900 TORSJT TXC435-150930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 359 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 355 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME OVER CENTRAL SUTTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SONORA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3051 10047 3037 10061 3018 10029 3038 10014 $$ 08
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 15, 3:41 AM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:41 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 330 AM CDT SUN JUN 16 2003 .CURRENT...COLD FRONT IS NEAR I-10 WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALL ALONG THE SOUTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES. .TODAY...WILL GO WITH THE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES TODAY WITH FRONT. OTHERWISE TO THE NORTH...STILL UNDER SOME INFLUENCE OF 50H LOW OVER NORTHEASTERN TEXAS. THIS COULD HELP TO PRODUCE SOME ISOLATED ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES JUST ABOUT THE SAM AS YESTERDAY. .TONIGHT-MONDAY...50H LOW CONTINUES TO PUSH TO THE EAST AND EFFECTS ON THE AREA TO LESSEN THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. WILL CONTINUE TO TREND POPS DOWN TO 10 PERCENT OR BELOW AND GRADUALLY TAKE MENTION OUT OF THE FORECAST. .TUESDAY-SATURDAY...RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA...MAINLY TO THE WEST AND KEEP THE AREA IN NORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW THROUGH THE PERIOD. ALTHOUGH THIS WOULD NORMALLY BE FAVORABLE REGIME FOR PRECIPITATION...THERE IS NOTHING THAT I CAN HANG MY HAT ON AT THIS TIME TO MENTION IN THE FORECAST. WILL PUT VERY LOW POPS IN THE GRIDS AND WAIT FOR LATER MODEL RUNS TO SEE IF SOMETHING CAN ADDED TO THE FORECAST. IT IS ABOUT THAT TIME OF YEAR FOR THE RAINS TO STOP AND GET HOT. ALSO TRENDED TEMPERATURES UP A FEW DEGREES IN THE LATTER PORTION OF THE EXTENDED AS SHOULD HAVE ENOUGH TIME BY THEN TO DRY OUT THE GROUND TO GET SOME HEATING GOING. ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS TO BE GETTING WARMER...STILL NOT AS WARM AS IT COULD BE THIS TIME OF YEAR. ABI 085/064/086/066 4222 SJT 086/064/086/065 4222 JCT 086/063/086/068 5332 .SJT...NONE. 27/BRAZZELL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 2:30 PM CDT, 13 hours 30 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-151915- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT... NORTHWEST FLOW IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF WEST TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. AS DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 WILL HAVE THE GREATEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Schleicher | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 2:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Mason | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 3:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Mason | 3 hr |
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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.