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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1998, 12:20 AM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 11, 1998, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 1:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownwood, TX | Two roofs were blown off and several trees blown over. A tractor trailer was also overturned. |
| Jun 11, 12:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Early, TX | Trees were blown down and a railroad crossing barrier snapped off |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 303 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.4
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.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 10, 8:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 8:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 843 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1998 LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA AT ABOUT 30 KNOTS...WITH A HINT OF A BOW LIKELY TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THUS...NOT MUCH TIME TO TALK. WITH AREA WIND PROFILES ALREADY SHOWING THE LOW LEVEL JET INCREASING TO 50 KNOTS AND ABUNDANT DEEP MOISTURE... STORMS SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. HAVE 50 TO 60 PERCENT POPS GOING ACROSS THE AREA...AND A MENTION OF SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN. FORECASTS LOOK GOOD FOR NOW. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Mitchell, Nolan | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 61 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.