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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 3, 1995Sterling County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 1995, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Sterling County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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, Apr 3, 9:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

TXZ140-128-139-113-054-053-044-049-048-114-127-040300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
932 PM CDT MON APR 3 1995

...TORNADO WARNING EXPIRED FOR SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY...

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE BIG COUNTRY
UNTIL 1 AM CDT...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: MITCHELL...SCURRY
...FISHER...STONEWALL AND NOLAN.

AT 932 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OF
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS
SLOWED TO A SOUTHEAST DRIFT OF LESS THAN 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL CAUSE A RISE ALONG BEALS CREEK...AND MAY FLOOD LOW WATER CROSSINGS
ACROSS SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY.

MOTORISTS IN SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO WATER WHICH
COVERS THE ROADWAY TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
STRIKES WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
^
STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

TXZ140-128-139-113-054-053-044-049-048-114-127-040300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
932 PM CDT MON APR 3 1995

...TORNADO WARNING EXPIRED FOR SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY...

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE BIG COUNTRY
UNTIL 1 AM CDT...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: MITCHELL...SCURRY
...FISHER...STONEWALL AND NOLAN.

AT 932 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OF
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS
SLOWED TO A SOUTHEAST DRIFT OF LESS THAN 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL CAUSE A RISE ALONG BEALS CREEK...AND MAY FLOOD LOW WATER CROSSINGS
ACROSS SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY.

MOTORISTS IN SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO WATER WHICH
COVERS THE ROADWAY TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
STRIKES WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
^
STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 9:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 9:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 11:13 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 11:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

TXZ064>066-070>073-076>078-154-155-168>170-040515-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1115 PM CDT MON APR 3 1995

...CORRECTED FOR TIME...

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY UNTIL 1 AM
CDT...

AT 1105 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN
EXTREME NORTHEAST STERLING COUNTY...8 MILES WEST OF SILVER.  MOVEMENT
WAS EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY
WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL WERE IN
SOUTHEAST HOWARD COUNTY.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO STERLING COUNTY AROUND 1130 PM CDT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sterling	51 min
Apr 4, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	28 min
Apr 4, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	67 min
Apr 4, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.