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Tornado Warning 9, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 12:17 PM CST for McCulloch County, Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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, 12:17 PM CST (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 12:20 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 0 | Voca, TX | HIGHWAY SIGNS BLOWN DOWN |
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, 11:50 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.4
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KSJT 041817
TORSJT
TXC307-319-041900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1217 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MASON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
MCCULLOCH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 100 PM CST
* AT 1210 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
KATEMCY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF BRADY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BRADY BY 1225 PM CST
VOCA BY 1230 PM CST
ROCHELLE BY 1240 PM CST
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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.
A SVR TSTM WATCH IS IN EFFECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN
EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST
THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3117 9951 3087 9945 3085 9912 3114 9913
3127 9915
$$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, 11:49 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, 12:24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.