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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 27, 2000Kimble County, Mason County, Menard County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 7:07 PM CDT for Kimble County, Mason County, Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
May 27, 2000, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, Menard County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 7:10 PM CDTHail 0.75Ft Mckavett, TX
May 27, 7:31 PM CDTHail 1Junction, TX

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4256 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
4256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1415 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 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 May 27, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 1:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-272300-

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
127 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

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

AT EARLY AFTERNOON...A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS IN THE BIG COUNTRY AND
NORTHWEST CONCHO VALLEY. THIS BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM NEAR WICHITA
FALLS...TO NORTH OF ABILENE...TO STERLING CITY. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS
QUITE MOIST AND UNSTABLE SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY WITH DEWPOINTS AROUND
70 DEGREES.

AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHES WEST TEXAS...THE BOUNDARY IS
EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST...EXTENDING FROM OZONA...TO NEAR SAN
ANGELO...TO BALLINGER...TO CROSS PLAINS BY LATE AFTERNOON. STRONG LOW
LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY...COMBINED WITH A VERY UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE AND ADEQUATE DIRECTIONAL WIND SHEAR WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING.

THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM SNYDER...
TO MERTZON...TO OZONA. SOME STORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE
BIG COUNTRY...THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND WILL LIKELY BECOME
SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL SINCE STEERING WINDS ALOFT WILL BE LIGHT. LOCALIZED RAINFALL
AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH ISOLATED
TORNADOES. STORM MOTION WILL BE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 15 MPH.

ACROSS THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY...
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY IN THE EVENING.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LESS LIKELY HERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED..

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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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.