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Tornado Warning 5, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 19, 2025Irion County, Sterling County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT for Irion County, Sterling County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 19, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2025, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 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 21:01 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
Apr 19, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 3072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 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 Apr 19, 1:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 10:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 19, 11:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 19, 1:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 19, 2:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 19, 3:07 PM CDT, 53 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
Apr 18, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Reagan	51 min
Apr 18, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion	39 min
Apr 19, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Irion, Tom Green	53 min
Apr 19, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	62 min
Apr 19, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	45 min
Apr 19, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher	57 min
Apr 19, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	62 min
Apr 19, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	23 min
Apr 19, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Shackelford, Taylor	64 min
Apr 19, 1:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Tom Green	2 hr
Apr 19, 1:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	64 min
Apr 19, 1:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	23 min
Apr 19, 2:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	23 min
Apr 19, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Concho	50 min
Apr 19, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	24 min
Apr 19, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard, Schleicher, Sutton	65 min
Apr 19, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown, Coleman	54 min
Apr 19, 7:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	46 min
Apr 19, 7:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason, San Saba	42 min
Apr 19, 7:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	49 min
Apr 19, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	33 min
Apr 19, 11:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Taylor	37 min
Apr 19, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Upton	35 min
Apr 19, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	39 min
Apr 19, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Sterling	49 min
Apr 19, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	41 min
Apr 19, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Upton	23 min
Apr 19, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	51 min
Apr 19, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	62 min
Apr 19, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke	23 min
Apr 19, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	25 min
Apr 19, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Sterling, Tom Green	67 min
Apr 19, 4:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Sterling, Tom Green	118 min
Apr 19, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	40 min
Apr 19, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	52 min
Apr 19, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor	41 min
Apr 19, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	39 min
Apr 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan	3 hr
Apr 19, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	65 min
Apr 19, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Sterling, Tom Green	60 min
Apr 19, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	39 min
Apr 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	18 min
Apr 19, 6:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Callahan, Runnels, Taylor	3 hr
Apr 19, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Taylor	27 min
Apr 19, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	57 min
Apr 19, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels	53 min
Apr 19, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	29 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.