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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2006, 7:57 PM CDT for Irion County, Sterling County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 4, 2006, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2006, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Irion County, TX, Sterling 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 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 8:35 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 8 N Mertzon, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1712 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2327 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 050057 TORSJT TXC235-431-451-050145- /O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0013.060505T0057Z-060505T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 757 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL STERLING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS NORTHWESTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS NORTHEASTERN IRION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 752 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARDEN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF STERLING CITY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ARDEN BY 825 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3170 10089 3157 10112 3123 10098 3149 10070 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KSJT 050117 SVSSJT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 817 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 TXC431-451-050127- /O.CAN.KSJT.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060505T0145Z/ STERLING TX-TOM GREEN TX- 817 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWEST TOM GREEN AND STERLING COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 3153 10077 3153 10111 3123 10098 3149 10070 $$ TXC235-050145- /O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060505T0145Z/ IRION TX- 817 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN IRION COUNTY... AT 811 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE ROTATION SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF ARDEN...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF MERTZON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ARDEN BY 830 PM CDT 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 3153 10077 3153 10111 3123 10098 3149 10070 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 36 min |
| May 4, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Mason | 2 hr |
| May 4, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 31 min |
| May 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling, Tom Green | 46 min |
| May 4, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 29 min |
| May 4, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Mason | 33 min |
| May 4, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 32 min |
| May 4, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Tom Green | 50 min |
| May 4, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 27 min |
| May 4, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 32 min |
| May 4, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 24 min |
| May 4, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 31 min |
| May 4, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 23 min |
| May 4, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 35 min |
| May 4, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 29 min |
| May 4, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green | 49 min |
| May 4, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 44 min |
| May 4, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 48 min |
| May 4, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 29 min |
| May 4, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher, Tom Green | 35 min |
| May 4, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 35 min |
| May 4, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 30 min |
| May 4, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 27 min |
| May 4, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 36 min |
| May 4, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 22 min |
| May 4, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 52 min |
| May 4, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 31 min |
| May 4, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 29 min |
| May 4, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 33 min |
| May 4, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford | 50 min |
| May 4, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 45 min |
| May 4, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 30 min |
| May 4, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 22 min |
| May 4, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 43 min |
| May 5, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 67 min |
| May 5, 7:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 46 min |
| May 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 53 min |
| May 5, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 45 min |
| May 5, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 32 min |
| May 5, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 26 min |
| May 5, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 55 min |
| May 5, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 39 min |
| May 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 48 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.