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Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2016, 7:21 PM CST for McCulloch County, Mason County, San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 5 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
- Mar 8, 2016, 7:21 PM CST (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
Counties Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, San Saba County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 7:30 PM CST | HAIL 2.75 | 3 Se Voca, TX | |
| Mar 8, 7:30 PM CST | HAIL 4 | 4 Ne Katemcy, TX | |
| Mar 8, 7:34 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Fredonia, TX | TREE DAMAGE REPORTED |
| Mar 8, 7:34 PM CST | TORNADO | 5 Ne Fredonia, TX | |
| Mar 8, 7:35 PM CST | HAIL 1.5 | 6 Nw Fredonia, TX | QUARTER TO PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
912
WFUS54 KSJT 090121
TORSJT
TXC307-319-411-090145-
/O.NEW.KSJT.TO.W.0003.160309T0121Z-160309T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
721 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL MASON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...
SOUTHWESTERN SAN SABA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...
SOUTHEASTERN MCCULLOCH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 745 PM CST
* AT 720 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER VOCA...OR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRADY...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 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 TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTH CENTRAL MASON...SOUTHWESTERN SAN SABA AND SOUTHEASTERN
MCCULLOCH COUNTIES.
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 3088 9918 3096 9928 3113 9910 3106 9881
TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 235DEG 27KT 3101 9919
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:34 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Menard | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, Menard, San Saba | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 7:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | McCulloch | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 7:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 7:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 7:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Kimble | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford, Taylor | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 8:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Taylor | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 8:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Kimble | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 8:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 8:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Shackelford | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 8:42 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | San Saba | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 8:50 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | San Saba | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 8:52 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Kimble | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 9:01 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | San Saba | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 9:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | San Saba | 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.