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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 8, 2001, 9:30 PM CST for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Feb 8, 2001, 9:30 PM CST (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2001, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fisher County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 Feb 8, 1:56 PM CST, 7 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 1:56 PM CST, 7 hours 34 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 156 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001 DAMAGING WIND/LARGE HAIL EVENT EXPECTED TONIGHT ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. SEE SJT THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK OR SPSSJT FOR DETAILS. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HAS INCREASED DRAMATICALLY IN THE PAST 24 HRS. SURFACE DEWPOINTS ARE NOW AROUND 60 F WITH 850 MB DEWPOINTS NEAR 10 C. INFLUX OF MOISTURE CONTRIBUTING TO CAPES OF 800-1600 J/KG...IN SPITE OF A DENSE CIRRUS CANOPY. WITH UNSEASONABLY HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES...RAINFALL COULD EXCEED ONE INCH LOCALLY TONIGHT. PER THE 12Z MESOETA...DRYLINE/PACIFIC COLD FRONT TO REACH SJT AND ABI AROUND 9 PM...THEN EXIT OUR EASTERN COUNTIES BY 2AM. WE/LL HIGHLIGHT SEVERE THREAT IN THE 4 PM PACKAGE. NOT ENOUGH ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE DEGREE OF LIFT. MESOETA 700 MB OMEGA FIELDS TELL THE STORY HERE. NUFF SAID. ON FRIDAY...SOME WRAP AROUND CLOUDINESS FORESEEN ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. OTHERWISE...MUCH COOLER AS COLD AIR ADVECTION DOMINATE IN LOW LEVELS. NORTH WINDS TO PUT A CHILL IN THE AIR. COLD FRIDAY NIGHT AS BOUNDARY LAYER DECOUPLES. STILL RATHER COOL ON SATURDAY AS MODIFIED ARCTIC AIRMASS SLOW TO ERODE. IN THE EXTENDED...ZONAL FLOW TO RESULT IN MILD CONDITIONS SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ABI 042/052/026/049 7000 SJT 045/057/025/053 6000 JCT 048/062/029/056 8000 .SJT...LAKE CAUTION. 17
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 60 min |
| Feb 8, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 56 min |
| Feb 8, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 56 min |
| Feb 8, 11:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 67 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.