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Tornado Warning 23, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 3, 2024Concho County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 3, 2024, 5:52 PM CDT for Concho County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 3, 2024, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County Concho County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 3, 2:14 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 1108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 3, 2:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 1:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 3:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 4:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, May 3, 4:53 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 5:03 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 5:24 PM CDT, 28 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 2, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard, Sutton	39 min
May 2, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, San Saba	62 min
May 2, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Taylor	46 min
May 2, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	58 min
May 2, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Concho, McCulloch, Runnels	42 min
May 2, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton	58 min
May 2, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	47 min
May 2, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, Mason, San Saba	59 min
May 2, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, McCulloch, Mason, Menard	54 min
May 2, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Taylor	112 min
May 2, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	52 min
May 2, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Shackelford	35 min
May 2, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	60 min
May 2, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	38 min
May 2, 9:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	118 min
May 2, 9:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	35 min
May 2, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	32 min
May 2, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble	25 min
May 2, 9:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Brown, Coleman	113 min
May 2, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	37 min
May 2, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	44 min
May 2, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	36 min
May 3, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan	44 min
May 3, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	52 min
May 3, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke	46 min
May 3, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan	61 min
May 3, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke	38 min
May 3, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	51 min
May 3, 4:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Sterling	3 hr
May 3, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	43 min
May 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	37 min
May 3, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SJT	Coke	23 min
May 3, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	44 min
May 3, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	61 min
May 3, 5:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coke, Runnels	3 hr
May 3, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Schleicher, Tom Green	62 min
May 3, 6:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coke, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	3 hr
May 3, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	22 min
May 3, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	47 min
May 3, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green	48 min
May 3, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Concho, McCulloch, Menard, Tom Green	57 min
May 3, 6:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.