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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 13, 2001Shackelford County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 5:05 PM CDT for Shackelford County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
Jun 13, 2001, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Shackelford County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 2001-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1909 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 2001-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1909 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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 Jun 13, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
323 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

VIGOROUS LATE SEASON UPPER TROF OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES WILL EJECT
INTO EASTERN CANADA BY SATURDAY. ASSOCIATED TROF AXIS WILL SWING
THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS ON THURSDAY. IMPRESSIVE
MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY AXIS IS CURRENTLY BUILDING INTO THE CENTRAL
PLAINS. FURTHER SOUTH...ATMOSPHERE OVER WC TX CURRENTLY CAPPED...
DESPITE TEMPS/DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 90S/UPPER 60S...RESPECTIVELY.
EXPECT CONVECTION TO INITIALLY FIRE WEST OF THE PECOS...INTO THE
WESTERN BIG COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON...THEN SPREAD NORTHEAST.
SIMILAR TO TUESDAY EVENING...DEVELOPING LOW LEVEL JET SHOULD SUSTAIN
STORMS INTO THE EVENING HOURS. STORM COVERAGE WILL BE DEPENDANT ON
AMOUNT OF STORMS THAT INITIALLY DEVELOP OUT WEST UNDER THE STRONG
CAP. WITH WET BULB ZERO HEIGHT OF 13-15 KFT MSL AND WEAK DIRECTIONAL
SHEAR...MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THROUGH 06Z WILL BE DOWNBURST
WINDS.

WEAK SURFACE FRONT WILL DROP INTO WC TX THURSDAY EVENING...BEHIND
THE DEPARTING UPPER LEVEL TROF. A WEAKER MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROF IS
PROGGED BY THE ETA TO PASS THROUGH OK THURSDAY NIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN
CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE NW HILL COUNTRY/HEARTLAND ZONES...SLIGHT
CHANCE ELSEWHERE.

TEMPS MODERATE SLIGHTLY BY FRIDAY...WITH WEAK EAST/SOUTHEAST SURFACE
FLOW. WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS FOR THE I-10 CORRIDOR FRIDAY...NEAR
THE EXPECTED POSITION OF THE STALLED FRONT.

UPPER RIDGE OVER THE GULF WILL BUILD WESTWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN
ROCKIES THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. AVN/MRF PROG WEAK EASTERLY
MID LEVEL FLOW OVER WC TX. TEMPS SHOULD MODERATE FROM THE CENTURY
MARK WE HAVE SEEN MUCH OF RECENTLY.

ABI 076/096/069/091 3121
SJT 076/099/070/093 2121
JCT 075/098/072/093 2131

.SJT...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-132330-

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
119 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

...SCATTERED MAINLY NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY...

STRONG DAYTIME HEATING...ADEQUATE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND CONVERGENCE
ALONG THE DRYLINE MAY PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM SONORA TO
CROSS PLAINS. ALTHOUGH MOST STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE ESPECIALLY NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 20. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE PRIMARY THREATS
FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY.

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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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-132330-

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
119 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

...SCATTERED MAINLY NON-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY...

STRONG DAYTIME HEATING...ADEQUATE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND CONVERGENCE
ALONG THE DRYLINE MAY PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM SONORA TO
CROSS PLAINS. ALTHOUGH MOST STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE ESPECIALLY NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 20. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE PRIMARY THREATS
FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY.

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 OpKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH
TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Nolan63 min
Jun 12, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTFisher, Nolan28 min
Jun 12, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTNolan32 min
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones30 min
Jun 13, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton43 min
Jun 13, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton62 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton62 min
Jun 13, 6:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTThrockmorton106 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.