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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 7, 1998Crockett County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 1:00 AM CST for Crockett County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
Mar 7, 1998, 1:00 AM CST (07:00 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1998, 1:35 AM CST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Crockett County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 6, 8:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Mar 6, 9:02 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 9:02 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 8:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett47 min
Mar 6, 9:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett94 min
Mar 6, 9:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion93 min
Mar 7, 2:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan46 min
Mar 7, 3:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor48 min
Mar 7, 8:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher, Tom Green49 min
Mar 7, 12:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green47 min
Mar 7, 12:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett63 min
Mar 7, 1:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho63 min
Mar 7, 1:53 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTSutton77 min
Mar 7, 2:14 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTTom Green61 min
Mar 7, 2:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho46 min
Mar 7, 2:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho58 min
Mar 7, 2:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble74 min
Mar 7, 3:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, McCulloch60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.