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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 17, 1999Brown County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1999, 4:21 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
May 17, 1999, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1999, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 17, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1999-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1514 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1999-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 291 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
1514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.7

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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
May 17, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho46 min
May 17, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho62 min
May 17, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho66 min
May 17, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTMenard78 min
May 17, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton65 min
May 17, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown65 min
May 17, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green61 min
May 17, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman62 min
May 17, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher65 min
May 17, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton64 min
May 17, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.