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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2004, 2:11 PM CST for Concho County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 2, 2004, 2:11 PM CST (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2004, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Concho County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1213 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
366 WFUS54 KSJT 022011 TORSJT TXC095-451-022115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 211 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CONCHO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 206 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 22 MILES WEST OF EDEN...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN ANGELO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... EDEN BY 310 PM CST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3133 10027 3111 10025 3110 9979 3129 9970 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 10:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 10:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 62 min |
| Apr 2, 11:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman | 105 min |
| Apr 2, 12:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 1:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 1:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 57 min |
| Apr 2, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.