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Tornado Warning 55, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 30, 2019Crockett County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2019, 6:01 PM CDT for Crockett County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2019, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2019, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.75 in

County Crockett County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.

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 30, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 29, 6:51 PM CDT, 23 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 6:51 PM CDT, 23 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	30 min
May 30, 5:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	33 min
May 30, 5:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	42 min
May 30, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	23 min
May 30, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	27 min
May 30, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard	42 min
May 30, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	55 min
May 30, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	45 min
May 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	61 min
May 30, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason	52 min
May 30, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	60 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.