Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 5:51 PM CDT for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1996, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sterling County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:12 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Sterling City, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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
- 1591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 102251 SVRSJT TXC431-102355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 551 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ...STERLING COUNTY AT 550 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY SAN ANGELO DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTH OF STERLING CITY MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLI ANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 10, 5:12 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ064>066-071>073-102315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 512 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996 AT 510 PM RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHERN STERLING COUNTY. THIS ACTIVITY WAS DEVELOPING ALONG A COLD FRONT. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF STERLING CITY. THIS STORM SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT DURING THE PAST HOUR. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDO6ORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:31 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
TXZ127-054-053-113-114-140-128-139-049-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX 530 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996 AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY. SOME OF THE STRONGER SHOWERS WERE LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST FISHER COUNTY AND 10 TO 15 MILES NORTH OF STAMFORD. AS THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT MOVES FURTHER INTO THE BIG COUNTRY...MORE DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR. THESE SHOWERS MAY DEVELOP QUITE RAPIDLY INTO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT TO THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING...GUSTY THUNDERSTORM WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 62 min |
| May 10, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.