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Tornado Warning 33, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 22, 2024Irion County, Sterling County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2024, 3:23 PM CDT for Irion County, Sterling County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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 22, 2024, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Irion County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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 22, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 3265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.1

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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 22, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 1:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 2:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 2:50 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:51 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 2:58 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 3:08 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 3:14 PM CDT, 9 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 21, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	51 min
May 21, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	39 min
May 21, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	46 min
May 21, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman	61 min
May 21, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown	23 min
May 22, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	34 min
May 22, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	40 min
May 22, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	28 min
May 22, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	47 min
May 22, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Shackelford	25 min
May 22, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman, Runnels	52 min
May 22, 2:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Shackelford	3 hr
May 22, 2:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	3 hr
May 22, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	25 min
May 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	48 min
May 22, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	32 min
May 22, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	31 min
May 22, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	27 min
May 22, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman	63 min
May 22, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	44 min
May 22, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	24 min
May 22, 3:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman	3 hr
May 22, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	62 min
May 22, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	27 min
May 22, 4:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	114 min
May 22, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	33 min
May 22, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	41 min
May 22, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	38 min
May 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Tom Green	2 hr
May 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Concho, Tom Green	62 min
May 22, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	45 min
May 22, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	51 min
May 22, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	29 min
May 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	47 min
May 22, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	14 min
May 22, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	44 min
May 22, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	27 min
May 22, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman	37 min
May 22, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green	48 min
May 22, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green	61 min
May 22, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Haskell	43 min
May 22, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.