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Tornado Warning 26, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 5, 2006Coleman County, Runnels County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2006, 8:22 PM CDT for Coleman County, Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 5 reports 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 5, 2006, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Coleman County, TX, Runnels County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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
May 5, 8:23 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 Nw Talpa, TX	IT WAS DETERMINED BY A SURVEY TEAM THAT THIS WAS NOT A TORNADO AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED.
May 5, 8:23 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Nw Talpa, TX
May 5, 8:43 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	Coleman, TX
May 5, 8:52 PM CDT	HAIL 2.5	Coleman, TX
May 5, 9:06 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Coleman, TX

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

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this tornado warning; the first came 1 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 5, 1:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 060122
TORSJT
TXC083-399-060200-
/O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0026.060506T0122Z-060506T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
822 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL RUNNELS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
  CENTRAL COLEMAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 818 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES
  NORTH OF TALPA NEAR THE RUNNELS AND COLEMAN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES    
  EAST OF BALLINGER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. BASEBALL SIZE HAIL IS   
  ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GLEN COVE BY 825 PM CDT
  HORDS CREEK RESERVOIR BY 835 PM CDT
  VALERA BY 840 PM CDT
  COLEMAN BY 850 PM CDT
  SANTA ANNA AND US-67 NEAR THE COLEMAN-BROWN COUNTY LINE BY 900 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 3198 9979 3176 9981 3162 9920 3190 9920

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KSJT 060142
SVSSJT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
839 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006

TXC083-399-060200-
/O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-060506T0200Z/
RUNNELS TX-COLEMAN TX-
839 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
COLEMAN AND EAST CENTRAL RUNNELS COUNTIES...

AT 837 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH ROTATION...LOCATED NEAR VALERA 
...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLEMAN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. A 
TORNADO MAY DEVELOP AT ANY TIME RESIDENTS OF COLEMAN...AND AREAS 
ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE CITY OF COLEMAN SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  COLEMAN BY 845 PM CDT
  SANTA ANNA BY 855 PM CDT
  US-67 NEAR THE COLEMAN-BROWN COUNTY LINE BY 900 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

LAT...LON 3198 9979 3176 9981 3162 9920 3190 9920

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
620 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006

.AVIATION...
SCT TSTMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. TORNADO WATCH IN
EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 06/03Z. OTHER STORMS WILL
DEVELOP FURTHER SOUTH ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
STRONG UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS ROTATING ACROSS THE AREA ALONG WITH
SURFACE BOUNDARIES WILL RESULT IN POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT.
CURRENTLY GOING WITH VRB35G45KT 3SM TSRAGR IN THE KABI TAF UNTIL
06/02Z. AREAS OF MVFR CIGS OF BKN020-030 WILL DEVELOP AFTER 06/03Z.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 142 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006)

UPDATE...
UPDATED ZONES TO ADD TORNADO WATCH HEADLINE.

PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 104 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006)

SHORT TERM...
ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT...AS SPC DAY 1 OUTLOOK HAS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWFA
IN A MODERATE RISK. STORMS WILL FIRE ALONG NW-SE SURFACE BOUNDARY
NEAR A KMAF-KSJT-BRADY LINE AND ALONG DRYLINE ACROSS EXTREME
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. SUPERCELLS ARE A GOOD
BET DUE TO SBCAPE VALUES OF 2000 TO 3000 J/KG AND 0-6KM SHEAR OF
50 TO 60 KNOTS. MAIN SEVERE THREATS WILL BE VERY LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...0-3KM HODOGRAPHS SHOW GOOD CLOCKWISE
TURNING WITH HELICITY VALUES OF 150 TO 300...SO THERE IS POTENTIAL
FOR TORNADOES. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AXIS IS CURRENTLY LOCATED ALONG
A KCOT-KSOA-KINK-KHOB LINE. GOING WITH LKLY POPS ACROSS THE CWFA
TONIGHT AS AN MCS WILL FORM BY 06/06Z AN MOVE EAST-SOUTHEAST
TOWARD CENTRAL TEXAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE A POSSIBILITY DUE
TO HIGH PW VALUES. WILL KEEP CHC POPS GOING FOR SATURDAY AS SOME
INSTABILITY AND SHEAR STILL PRESENT ALONG WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY.

LONG TERM...
MAINLY SLGT CHC POPS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY
NIGHT...THEN A DRY FORECAST TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS UPPER
HEIGHTS BUILD AND MID LEVEL CAPPING INCREASES. HIGHS WILL BE IN
THE LOWER TO MID 90S ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA MONDAY THROUGH
WEDNESDAY. COOL FRONT TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATE
NEXT WEEK...WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

.SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
BROWN...CALLAHAN...COKE...COLEMAN...CONCHO...CROCKETT...FISHER...
HASKELL...IRION...JONES...KIMBLE...MASON...MCCULLOCH...MENARD...
NOLAN...RUNNELS...SAN SABA...SCHLEICHER...SHACKELFORD...
STERLING...SUTTON...TAYLOR...THROCKMORTON...AND TOM GREEN.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 1:32 PM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
132 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-061930-
FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO-
CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD-
TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE-
MASON-
132 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH
LATE EVENING...ROUGHLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20.
INCREASING WIND SHEAR AND MODERATE TO HIGH ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY
WILL LEAD TO A POTENTIAL FOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SUPERCELL
THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 3 PM. VERY LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS.
LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH LONG LIVED
SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY...MAINLY
EAST OF AN ABILENE TO JUNCTION LINE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER
THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS SATURDAY.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 7:45 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
745 PM CDT FRI MAY 05 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0744 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     8 S HASKELL             33.04N 99.73W
05/05/2006                   HASKELL            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:46 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
746 PM CDT FRI MAY 05 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0746 PM     HAIL             HASKELL                 33.16N 99.73W
05/05/2006  E2.00 INCH       HASKELL            TX   PUBLIC

&&

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:47 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
747 PM CDT FRI MAY 05 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     HAIL             BALLINGER               31.74N 99.96W
05/05/2006  E1.75 INCH       RUNNELS            TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

PMCCULLO

Local storm report, May 5, 8:06 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
806 PM CDT FRI MAY 05 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0806 PM     HAIL             HAWLEY                  32.61N 99.81W
05/05/2006  E2.75 INCH       JONES              TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

PMCCULLO

Local storm report, May 5, 8:16 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
816 PM CDT FRI MAY 05 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     HAIL             3 E HAWLEY              32.61N 99.76W
05/05/2006  E2.75 INCH       JONES              TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

&&

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Local storm report, May 5, 8:17 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
817 PM CDT FRI MAY 05 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     TSTM WND GST     HAWLEY                  32.61N 99.81W
05/05/2006  E65 MPH          JONES              TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            THE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ENTERED THE ROOF OF THE FIRE
            STATION IN HAWLEY.

&&

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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
May 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	41 min
May 5, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	53 min
May 5, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	48 min
May 5, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	47 min
May 5, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	48 min
May 5, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	32 min
May 5, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton	46 min
May 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	60 min
May 5, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	66 min
May 5, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	47 min
May 5, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	46 min
May 5, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	50 min
May 5, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	62 min
May 5, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	41 min
May 5, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan	54 min
May 5, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	49 min
May 5, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	32 min
May 5, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	42 min
May 5, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	26 min
May 5, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	35 min
May 5, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	32 min
May 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman	52 min
May 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown	52 min
May 5, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	30 min
May 5, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Nolan, Shackelford, Taylor	27 min
May 5, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	30 min
May 5, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	59 min
May 5, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	51 min
May 5, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Shackelford, Taylor	59 min
May 5, 10:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Brown	4 hr
May 5, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	63 min
May 5, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	51 min
May 5, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Runnels, San Saba	54 min
May 6, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, McCulloch	61 min
May 6, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	26 min
May 6, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	50 min
May 6, 2:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	McCulloch, San Saba	116 min
May 6, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason, Menard	53 min
May 6, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Menard	42 min
May 6, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason, Menard	30 min
May 6, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard	42 min
May 6, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	47 min
May 6, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	27 min
May 6, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason, San Saba	31 min
May 6, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason, San Saba	30 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.