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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2013, 6:07 PM CDT for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 14 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 23, 2013, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2013, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Fisher County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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 23, 6:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Rotan, TX | 100 BLOCK OF MCARTHER ST. BRICK WALL DOWN FROM A HOUSE. |
| May 23, 6:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Rotan, TX | |
| May 23, 6:12 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Rotan, TX | ROOFS MISSING OFF OF HOUSES. |
| May 23, 6:12 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 110 | Rotan, TX | |
| May 23, 6:12 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Ene Rotan, TX | THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT 612 PM CDT NEAR EAST LEE STREET ON THE EAST SIDE OF ROTAN. THIS TORNADO MOVED TO THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST ACROSS HIGHWAY 92 AND ACROSS THE ROTAN GOLF CLUB BEFORE LIFTING NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTH GENEVIEVE AVENUE AND HIGHWAY 70 AT 6 |
| May 23, 6:12 PM CDT | TORNADO | Rotan, TX | |
| May 23, 6:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 W Roby, TX | BARNS BLOWN AWAY ON FM 2832. TIME ESTIMATED. |
| May 23, 6:23 PM CDT | TORNADO | Rotan, TX | |
| May 23, 6:24 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Rotan, TX | |
| May 23, 6:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 3 S Rotan, TX | |
| May 23, 6:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 E Rotan, TX | TREES DOWN ON HWY 92. POSSIBLE TORNADO DAMAGE. |
| May 23, 6:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Rotan, TX | BARN ROOF COLLAPSED ON HWY 70. |
| May 23, 6:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Rotan, TX | DAMAGE TO ROOF... UPROOTED TREES... AND DOWNED POWER LINES EAST SIDE OF ROTAN |
| May 23, 6:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 4 S Rotan, 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 23, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
615 WFUS54 KSJT 232307 TORSJT TXC151-232345- /O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0013.130523T2307Z-130523T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 607 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL FISHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 604 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS NEAR ROTAN...OR 20 MILES WEST OF HAMLIN...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS TORNADIC WINDS...OTHER HAZARDS INCLUDE... LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL SIZE. POTENTIALLY DEADLY LIGHTNING. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HOBBS BY 620 PM CDT... ROBY AND LONGWORTH BY 645 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3262 10019 3258 10064 3291 10064 3294 10034 TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 351DEG 10KT 3284 10046 $$
2 follow-up statements
122 WWUS54 KSJT 232313 SVSSJT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 613 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 TXC151-232345- /O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130523T2345Z/ FISHER TX- 613 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL FISHER COUNTY... AT 609 PM CDT... THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROTAN...OR 20 MILES WEST OF HAMLIN...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN ROTAN AT 608 PM. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... DANGEROUS TORNADIC WINDS. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL SIZE. DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 100 MPH. WITH POSSIBLE STORM IMPACTS... OVERTURNED VEHICLES... DAMAGE TO TREES...SOME MAY BE UPROOTED... DAMAGE TO HOMES...MAY DESTROY MANUFACTURED HOMES... DENTED VEHICLES... MODERATE ROOF DAMAGE... MAY BREAK WINDOWS ON VEHICLES AND HOMES MAY INJURE PEOPLE...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK LEFT UNPROTECTED... NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN... GARAGE DOORS MAY BE BLOWN IN... SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE THREAT TO WELL BUILT HOMES FROM FLYING DEBRIS... SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO MANUFACTURED HOMES...SOME MAY OVERTURN... WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES OF LONG DURATION... POTENTIALLY DEADLY FLYING DEBRIS... THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HOBBS BY 620 PM CDT... ROBY...BUSBY...LONGWORTH AND CAPITOLA BY 645 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3262 10019 3258 10064 3291 10064 3294 10034 TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 351DEG 10KT 3282 10046 $$
142 WWUS54 KSJT 232324 SVSSJT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 624 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 TXC151-232345- /O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130523T2345Z/ FISHER TX- 624 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL FISHER COUNTY... AT 623 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS CONFIRMED! THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ROTAN...OR 19 MILES WEST OF HAMLIN...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... DANGEROUS TORNADIC WINDS. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO TENNIS BALL SIZE. DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 100 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... NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN... GARAGE DOORS MAY BE BLOWN IN... SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE THREAT TO WELL BUILT HOMES FROM FLYING DEBRIS... SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO MANUFACTURED HOMES...SOME MAY OVERTURN... WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES OF LONG DURATION... POTENTIALLY DEADLY FLYING DEBRIS... THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HOBBS BY 640 PM CDT... ROBY BY 645 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3262 10019 3258 10064 3291 10064 3294 10034 TIME...MOT...LOC 2325Z 351DEG 10KT 3284 10045 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 39 min |
| May 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 46 min |
| May 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Fisher | 2 hr |
| May 23, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 47 min |
| May 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Fisher | 112 min |
| May 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 46 min |
| May 23, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor, Throckmorton | 47 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.