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Tornado Warning 7, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 4, 2004Haskell County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 11:49 AM CST for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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, 11:49 AM CST (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2004, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Haskell County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 4, 12:05 PM CST	TORNADO	10 Se Haskell, TX	POSSIBLE TORNADO OR DOWNBURST. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO HOMES AND TRAILERS AROUND LAKE STAMFORD.

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, 6:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 4, 9:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

392 
WFUS54 KSJT 041749
TORSJT
TXC207-041830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1149 AM CST THU MAR 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HASKELL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HASKELL

* UNTIL 1230 PM CST

* AT 1147 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF SAGERTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF HASKELL...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HASKELL BY 1205 PM CST

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3330 9999 3299 9996 3302 9951 3336 9956

$$

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, 10:55 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke	50 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, 11:57 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.