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Tornado Warning 2, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 4, 2004Coke County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 10:55 AM CST for Coke County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 4, 2004, 10:55 AM CST (16:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2004, 11:45 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coke County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 4, 11:00 AM CST	TSTM WND GST 0	Bronte, TX	ROOF DAMAGE REPORTED

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 4, 9:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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

331 
WFUS54 KSJT 041655
TORSJT
TXC081-041745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1054 AM CST THU MAR 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ROBERT LEE

* UNTIL 1145 AM CST

* AT 1051 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF
  ROBERT LEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRONTE BY 1105 AM CST

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 3186 10060 3172 10046 3185 10027 3205 10028
          3206 10042

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 3:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	58 min
Mar 4, 9:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	43 min
Mar 4, 9:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	47 min
Mar 4, 10:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	50 min
Mar 4, 10:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	47 min
Mar 4, 10:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	42 min
Mar 4, 10:41 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	49 min
Mar 4, 10:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher, Sutton	63 min
Mar 4, 10:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	42 min
Mar 4, 11:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan	30 min
Mar 4, 11:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	25 min
Mar 4, 11:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	39 min
Mar 4, 11:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	45 min
Mar 4, 11:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	40 min
Mar 4, 11:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	51 min
Mar 4, 11:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, McCulloch	62 min
Mar 4, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	41 min
Mar 4, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	41 min
Mar 4, 11:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	48 min
Mar 4, 12:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard, Throckmorton	51 min
Mar 4, 12:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason	43 min
Mar 4, 12:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	51 min
Mar 4, 12:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown	62 min
Mar 4, 12:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	58 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.