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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2014, 4:38 PM CDT for San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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 27, 2014, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County San Saba County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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 27, 4:40 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 Sse Chappel, TX | CHASER PHOTO OF FUNNEL CLOUD |
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 27, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
161
WFUS54 KSJT 272138
TORSJT
TXC411-272215-
/O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0013.140527T2138Z-140527T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
438 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN SAN SABA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 435 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CHAPPEL...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN
SAN SABA COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3093 9870 3120 9856 3119 9855 3115 9852
3112 9854 3111 9853 3112 9850 3108 9846
3106 9847 3105 9845 3092 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 287DEG 17KT 3101 9856
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$1 follow-up statement
081
WWUS54 KSJT 272153
SVSSJT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
453 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2014
TXC411-272215-
/O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140527T2215Z/
SAN SABA TX-
453 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2014
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN SAN SABA
COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM CDT...
AT 450 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHAPPEL...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SAN SABA COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3093 9862 3112 9850 3108 9846 3106 9847
3105 9845 3092 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 307DEG 14KT 3097 9850
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling, Tom Green | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 52 min |
| May 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sterling | 46 min |
| May 26, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling, Tom Green | 52 min |
| May 26, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Runnels | 34 min |
| May 26, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 50 min |
| May 26, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sterling | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Runnels | 38 min |
| May 26, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 63 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 66 min |
| May 26, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 63 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
| May 26, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 63 min |
| May 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 60 min |
| May 26, 10:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 3 hr |
| May 26, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 51 min |
| May 26, 10:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Coleman | 2 hr |
| May 26, 10:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Brown | 118 min |
| May 26, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan | 52 min |
| May 26, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 57 min |
| May 26, 11:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Irion | 32 min |
| May 26, 11:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 2 hr |
| May 26, 11:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Schleicher | 25 min |
| May 26, 11:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | McCulloch | 56 min |
| May 27, 12:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Schleicher | 35 min |
| May 27, 1:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Menard | 40 min |
| May 27, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard | 45 min |
| May 27, 2:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
| May 27, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 63 min |
| May 27, 5:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Brown | 2 hr |
| May 27, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 24 min |
| May 27, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Brown | 33 min |
| May 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | San Saba | 29 min |
| May 27, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 39 min |
| May 27, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 52 min |
| May 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 49 min |
| May 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 35 min |
| May 27, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Brown | 25 min |
| May 27, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 29 min |
| May 27, 6:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Brown | 24 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.