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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 4, 1996Schleicher County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1996, 8:46 PM CST for Schleicher County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 4, 1996, 8:46 PM CST (02:46 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 1996, 9:25 PM CST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Schleicher County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1597 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 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
1597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 6:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.