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Tornado Warning 2, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2012, 3:55 PM CDT for Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2012, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2012, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kimble County, TX, Sutton County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 2784 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.3
- Supercell composite
- 18.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
991 WFUS54 KSJT 192055 TORSJT TXC267-435-192130- /O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0002.120319T2055Z-120319T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 355 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN KIMBLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... SOUTHEASTERN SUTTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 351 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF I-10 NEAR THE SUTTON-KIMBLE COUNTY LINE...OR 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SONORA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS TORNADIC WINDS...OTHER HAZARDS INCLUDE... LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. POTENTIALLY DEADLY LIGHTNING. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... I-10 NEAR THE SUTTON-KIMBLE COUNTY LINE BY 420 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 421 AND 432. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3028 10060 3040 10058 3051 10009 3030 9997 TIME...MOT...LOC 2055Z 248DEG 44KT 3030 10043 $$ 18
1 follow-up statement
008 WWUS54 KSJT 192109 SVSSJT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 409 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 TXC267-435-192130- /O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120319T2130Z/ KIMBLE TX-SUTTON TX- 409 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN SUTTON AND SOUTHWESTERN KIMBLE COUNTIES... AT 407 PM CDT... THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF I-10 NEAR THE SUTTON-KIMBLE COUNTY LINE...OR 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SONORA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... DANGEROUS TORNADIC WINDS. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. HAIL DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. WITH POSSIBLE STORM IMPACTS... OVERTURNED VEHICLES... DAMAGE TO TREES...SOME MAY BE UPROOTED... DAMAGE TO HOMES...MAY DESTROY MANUFACTURED HOMES... DENTED VEHICLES... MODERATE ROOF DAMAGE... MAY BREAK WINDOWS ON VEHICLES AND HOMES... MAY INJURE PEOPLE...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK LEFT UNPROTECTED... LIGHT OBJECTS BLOWN AROUND... THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... I-10 NEAR THE SUTTON-KIMBLE COUNTY LINE BY 420 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 422 AND 432. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3029 10038 3043 10042 3051 10009 3030 9997 TIME...MOT...LOC 2109Z 248DEG 44KT 3036 10025 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Concho, Menard | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 5:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Sterling | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 6:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 7:06 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 9 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Taylor | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 10:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 11:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 11:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 11:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Concho | 55 min |
| Mar 19, 12:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 12:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Callahan | 59 min |
| Mar 19, 1:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Coleman, Concho | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Schleicher | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 2:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Runnels | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Coleman | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Menard | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Menard | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Mason, Menard | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Kimble | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard, Sutton | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Mason | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Mason | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 6:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Mason | 81 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.