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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 28, 1995Reagan County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 2:18 PM CDT for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Reagan County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2342 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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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 28, 2:00 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
TXZ064>066-070>073-076>078-154-155-168>170-282005-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
200 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN THE CONCHO VALLEY...

AT 155 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A WEAK FRONT THAT
EXTENDED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CONCHO VALLEY SOUTH OF SAN ANGELO.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN
ANGELO AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF STILES. OTHER THUNDERSTOXRMS
WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF MERTZON AND 20 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF
STERLING CITY.

NO MOVEMENT HAD BEEN DETERMINED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTReagan48 min
May 28, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green58 min
May 28, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling68 min
May 28, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTTom Green65 min
May 28, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTTom Green65 min
May 28, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho65 min
May 28, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho37 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.