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Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2012, 4:29 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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 19, 2012, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Kimble County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 4:48 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 4 Wnw Junction, TX | ONE VEHICLE WAS DENTED BY THIS HAIL. |
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 19, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.
334 WFUS54 KSJT 192129 TORSJT TXC267-192200- /O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0003.120319T2129Z-120319T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 429 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN KIMBLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 425 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 4 MILES SOUTH OF ROOSEVELT...OR 18 MILES WEST OF JUNCTION...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS TORNADIC WINDS...OTHER HAZARDS INCLUDE... LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. POTENTIALLY DEADLY LIGHTNING. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... JUNCTION BY 450 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 429 AND 450. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3051 10011 3064 9979 3037 9971 3034 10011 TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 250DEG 36KT 3044 10002 $$
1 follow-up statement
182 WWUS54 KSJT 192141 SVSSJT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 441 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 TXC267-192200- /O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120319T2200Z/ KIMBLE TX- 441 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR WESTERN KIMBLE COUNTY... AT 439 PM CDT... THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF SOUTH LLANO RIVER STATE PARK...OR 8 MILES WEST OF JUNCTION...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... DANGEROUS TORNADIC WINDS. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE.. WITH POSSIBLE STORM IMPACTS... OVERTURNED VEHICLES... DAMAGE TO TREES...SOME MAY BE UPROOTED... DAMAGE TO HOMES...MAY DESTROY MANUFACTURED HOMES... DENTED VEHICLES... MODERATE ROOF DAMAGE... MAY BREAK WINDOWS ON VEHICLES AND HOMES... MAY INJURE PEOPLE...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK LEFT UNPROTECTED... THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SOUTH LLANO RIVER STATE PARK AND CLEO BY 445 PM CDT... JUNCTION BY 450 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 435 AND 450. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3035 9998 3054 10005 3064 9979 3037 9971 TIME...MOT...LOC 2141Z 250DEG 36KT 3048 9989 $$ 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, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble, Sutton | 35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.