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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 30, 1990Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1990, 2:29 AM CDT for Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1990, 2:29 AM CDT (07:29 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1990, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kimble County, TX, Sutton County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 273 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1406 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1406 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.4
Supercell composite
10.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, Tom Green61 min
May 29, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion62 min
May 29, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher69 min
May 29, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMenard51 min
May 29, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett, Schleicher65 min
May 30, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble, Menard, Schleicher55 min

Nearby

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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.