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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX

February 28, 2001Kimble County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 2001, 1:22 PM CST for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Feb 28, 2001, 1:22 PM CST (19:22 UTC)
Expired
Feb 28, 2001, 1:45 PM CST
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kimble County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 12:00Z on 2001-02-28Temperature 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 214 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

750 
WUUS54 KSJT 281923
SVRSJT
TXC267-281945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
122 PM CST WED FEB 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KIMBLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 118 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   JUNCTION AT 130 PM CST

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS 1 INCH IN DIAMETER ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING 
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3044 10002 3031 9987 3055 9955 3069 9971

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 28, 11:45 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 11:45 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1145 AM CST WED FEB 28 2001

AREA RADARS CONTINUE TO SHOW THAT MOST OF THE SIGNIFICANT PRECIP HAS
PUSHED INTO THE EXTREME NORTHEAST BIG COUNTRY. TEMPERATURES STILL BELOW
FREEZING UP THERE AND ROAD CONDITIONS IN PRETTY POOR SHAPE. WILL LET
THE ICE STORM WARNING AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY CONTINUE FOR THE BIG
COUNTRY. ACROSS THE CONCHO VALLEY...TEMPERATURES HAVE CLIMBED TO
FREEZING...WITH DRIZZLE FALLING. WILL END THE FREEZING DRIZZLE ADVISORY
ACROSS THE CONCHO VALLEY. REST OF FORECAST IN DECENT SHAPE. WILL TWEAK
WINDS AND TEMPS BUT NOTHING TOO SIGNIFICANT.

.SJT...ICE STORM WARNING TODAY FOR PORTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY...
       TXZ049-054-098-099-113
       WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY FOR PORTIONS OF THE BIG
       COUNTRY...TXZ114-127-128

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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.