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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 12:47 AM CDT for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 12:47 AM CDT (05:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 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, 5.8 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.
- 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
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, 9:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
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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.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 11:53 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
TXZ127-054-053-113-114-140-128-139-044-049-048-040600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1153 PM CDT MON APR 3 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR MOST OF THE BIG COUNTRY INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: TAYLOR...CALLAHAN... MITCHELL...SCURRY...FISHER...NOLAN...JONES...COLEMAN AND SHACKELFORD. AT 1150 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST OF THE MITCHELL COUNTY LINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH INTO STERLING COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER A SMALL SECTION OF SOUTHEAST MITCHELL COUNTY ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER WEST OF HIGHWAY 208. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 208 BETWEEN COLORADO CITY AND ROBERT LEE SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO PONDING OF RAINWATER ON ROAD SURFACES AND FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 11:56 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
TXZ127-054-053-113-114-140-128-139-044-049-048-040600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 1153 PM CDT MON APR 3 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR MOST OF THE BIG COUNTRY INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: TAYLOR...CALLAHAN... MITCHELL...SCURRY...FISHER...NOLAN...JONES...COLEMAN AND SHACKELFORD. AT 1150 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST OF THE MITCHELL COUNTY LINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH INTO STERLING COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER A SMALL SECTION OF SOUTHEAST MITCHELL COUNTY ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER WEST OF HIGHWAY 208. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 208 BETWEEN COLORADO CITY AND ROBERT LEE SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO PONDING OF RAINWATER ON ROAD SURFACES AND FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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 3, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 61 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 |
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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.