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Tornado Warning 18, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2016, 7:39 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 29, 2016, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2016, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
County Throckmorton County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:09 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Nw Elbert, TX | TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBERT. |
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 29, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted.
976
WFUS54 KSJT 300039
TORSJT
TXC447-300115-
/O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0018.160530T0039Z-160530T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
739 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN THROCKMORTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 738 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF MILLERS CREEK RESERVOIR...OR 13
MILES SOUTH OF SEYMOUR...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF 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.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ELBERT AROUND 810 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3325 9896 3332 9936 3339 9939 3340 9938
3340 9896
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 292DEG 31KT 3339 9927
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$1 follow-up statement
503
WWUS54 KSJT 300052
SVSSJT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
752 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016
TXC447-300115-
/O.CON.KSJT.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160530T0115Z/
THROCKMORTON TX-
752 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN THROCKMORTON COUNTY...
AT 751 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 11 MILES EAST OF MILLERS CREEK RESERVOIR...OR 12 MILES
NORTH OF THROCKMORTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ELBERT AROUND 815 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3325 9896 3331 9931 3340 9936 3340 9896
TIME...MOT...LOC 0051Z 289DEG 21KT 3336 9920
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 41 min |
| May 29, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 40 min |
| May 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 62 min |
| May 29, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 40 min |
| May 29, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 47 min |
| May 29, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher | 62 min |
| May 29, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 65 min |
| May 29, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor | 63 min |
| May 29, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 61 min |
| May 29, 9:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Callahan, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor, Throckmorton | 3 hr |
| May 29, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 25 min |
| May 29, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 57 min |
| May 29, 10:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 54 min |
| May 29, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 65 min |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Fisher | 2 hr |
| May 29, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 60 min |
| May 29, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 64 min |
| May 29, 11:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Callahan | 114 min |
| May 30, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 55 min |
| May 30, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 63 min |
| May 30, 12:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 3 days |
| May 30, 12:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Brown, Coleman, Runnels | 3 hr |
| May 30, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 38 min |
| May 30, 1:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | McCulloch | 46 min |
| May 30, 2:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | San Saba | 40 min |
| May 30, 3:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 3 hr |
| May 30, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, Menard | 36 min |
| May 30, 4:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Kimble | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 24 hr |
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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.