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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 14, 1994Mason County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1994, 6:17 PM CDT for Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1994, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Mason County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KSJT 142319 RRA
SVRSJT
TXC319-150015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
617 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES    ...
 
IN  TEXAS
 
   ...MASON COUNTY
 
AT 617 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM NEAR PONTOTOC
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING.  HEAVY
RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD.

What forecasters said that day

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 5:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
TXZ154-168>170-142315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
512 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST
HILL COUNTRY AND MCCULLOCH COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 510 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM
JUST NORTHWEST OF MASON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.

KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
TXZ154-168>170-142315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
512 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST
HILL COUNTRY AND MCCULLOCH COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 510 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM
JUST NORTHWEST OF MASON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.

KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:22 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
TXZ154-168>170-142325-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
522 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST
HILL COUNTRY AND MCCULLOCH COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 510 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM
JUST NORTHWEST OF MASON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.

KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:22 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
TXZ154-168>170-142325-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
522 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST
HILL COUNTRY AND MCCULLOCH COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 510 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM
JUST NORTHWEST OF MASON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.

KEEP LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 14, 6:06 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
TXZ140-128-139-098-113-054-053-044-049-048-114-127-099-152310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
605 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994

 AT 605 PM...THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED  NEAR MAY IN BROWN COUNTY.
VERY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS STORM.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.                                                         [
Special weather statement, May 14, 6:06 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
TXZ140-128-139-098-113-054-053-044-049-048-114-127-099-152310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
605 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994

 AT 605 PM...THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED  NEAR MAY IN BROWN COUNTY.
VERY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS STORM.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.                                                         [

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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.