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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 19, 2000Coke County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2000, 9:42 AM CDT for Coke County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 19, 2000, 9:42 AM CDT (14:42 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2000, 10:30 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Coke County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:45 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-19Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.3

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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 May 19, 7:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 7:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
700 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000

STRONGEST ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT HAS SWEPT SOUTHEAST
OUT OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...NEW CONVECTION
ALREADY STARTING TO DEVELOP OUT ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN. WILL UPDATE
ZONES TO TWEAK POP CHANCES AND WINDS ACROSS THE SOUTH.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 5:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-191415-

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
552 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT...
MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20.  THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ALBANY TO STERLING CITY.  A COLD FRONT HAS
CROSSED WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AND WILL CONTINUE DRIFTING SOUTH THROUGH
THE DAY TODAY.  OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS
THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MORNING WILL HELP PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER TODAY.  A STRONG SHORT WAVE
WILL CROSS THE REGION FROM THE WEST LATER THIS AFTERNOON FURTHER
DESTABILIZING THE ATMOSPHERE.

WITH FAVORABLE DYNAMICS...COOLER TEMPERATURES ALOFT...AND A
FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR ENVIRONMENT...THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS.  THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED..

FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE
PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT
LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC.
FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT.

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Local storm report, May 19, 8:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
806 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0710 PM    4 E CREWS                 TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   COLEMAN                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL

0816 PM    BURKETT                   TX   2.50 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   COLEMAN                        TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL

0843 PM    CROSS CUT                 TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   BROWN                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL

0847 PM    WILLIAMS                  TX   3.00 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   BROWN                          REPORTED BY LOCAL SHERIFF

0850 PM    MAY                       TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   BROWN                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL

1030 PM    TANKERSLY                 TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   TOM GREEN                      NICKEL SIZE HAIL

1034 PM    BANGS                     TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   BROWN                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY LOCAL SHERIFF

1045 PM    BROWNWOOD                 TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   BROWN                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY LOCAL SHERIFF

1050 PM    SAN ANGELO                TX   2.25 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   TOM GREEN                      REPORTED AT NWS OFFICE IN
                                          SAN ANGELO NEAR AIRPORT

1130 PM    ROBERT LEE                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   COKE                           GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY LOCAL SHERIFF

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green81 min
May 18, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels97 min
May 18, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown, Coleman42 min
May 18, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels57 min
May 18, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman55 min
May 18, 9:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTColeman59 min
May 18, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown60 min
May 18, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green86 min
May 18, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown55 min
May 18, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke45 min
May 18, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho63 min
May 19, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho48 min
May 19, 3:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSan Saba118 min
May 19, 8:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling53 min
May 19, 9:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan26 min
May 19, 10:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green59 min
May 19, 10:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton52 min
May 19, 12:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling45 min
May 19, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett, Sutton25 min
May 19, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green53 min
May 19, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green57 min
May 19, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.