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Tornado Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2015, 9:30 PM CDT for Coke County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- May 5, 2015, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2015, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
County Coke County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
377
WFUS54 KSJT 060230
TORSJT
TXC081-060315-
/O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0021.150506T0230Z-150506T0315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
930 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL COKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 929 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SILVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
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 NORTH
CENTRAL COKE 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 3207 10053 3193 10050 3198 10074 3206 10073
TIME...MOT...LOC 0230Z 275DEG 10KT 3202 10068
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
JOHNSON1 follow-up statement
076
WWUS54 KSJT 060244
SVSSJT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
944 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015
TXC081-060315-
/O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150506T0315Z/
COKE TX-
944 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL COKE COUNTY
UNTIL 1015 PM CDT...
AT 942 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR SILVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SANCO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3199 10066 3204 10066 3207 10053 3196 10051
TIME...MOT...LOC 0245Z 275DEG 10KT 3202 10063
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN
$$
JOHNSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Sterling | 27 min |
| May 5, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sterling | 32 min |
| May 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan, Sterling | 45 min |
| May 5, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 33 min |
| May 5, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 47 min |
| May 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 46 min |
| May 5, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 42 min |
| May 6, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Menard | 33 min |
| May 6, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Menard | 32 min |
| May 6, 2:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Menard | 28 min |
| May 6, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Concho | 38 min |
| May 6, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Tom Green | 48 min |
| May 6, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Runnels | 51 min |
| May 6, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 52 min |
| May 6, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Callahan | 32 min |
| May 6, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 28 min |
| May 6, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Taylor | 38 min |
| May 6, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 64 min |
| May 6, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Haskell, Jones | 34 min |
| May 6, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 38 min |
| May 6, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Haskell, Jones | 46 min |
| May 6, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 56 min |
| May 6, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 47 min |
| May 6, 6:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Haskell, Jones | 84 min |
| May 6, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Throckmorton | 41 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.