Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS San Angelo, TX

Issued

May 26, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)

Expired

May 26, 1998, 9:50 PM CDT

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS San Angelo, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Runnels County, TX

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 1:57 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
157 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1998

FLAT UPPER LEVEL RIDGE ALONG THE GULF COAST WILL BUILD INTO TX
THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH CORRESPONDING INCREASES IN 1000-500 MB
THICKNESSES. THE TRAIN OF WEAK SHORT WAVE TROFS EMBEDDED IN THE
SOUTHWEST FLOW THE PAST 2 DAYS WILL SHIFT NORTH OF WC TX...BUT
SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT 60+ DEGREE
DEWPOINTS THE NEXT 2 DAYS.

BEST RAIN CHANCE WILL BE THIS EVENING. 18Z ADAP ESTIMATED LIFTED
INDICES WERE -10 TO -12C OVER THE WESTERN 1/3 OF WC TX. THIS AREA IS
WEAKLY CAPPED AND EXPECT STORMS IN THIS REGION INITIALLY DESPITE
RELATIVELY WEAK CONVERGENCE. JTN PROFILER SHOWS UNIMPRESSIVE SPEED
SHEAR...SUGGESTING SLOW MOVING PULSE-TYPE STORMS.

TEMPERATURES TRICKY WITH POTENTIAL STORM OUTFLOW AND DAYTIME HAZE.
GOOD CONSENSUS AMONG THE CONSERVATIVE FAN/FWC GUIDANCE...SEE NO
REASON TO DEVIATE SIGNIFICANTLY.

ABI 065/091 21
SJT 065/092 21
JCT 067/092 1-

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.