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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 9, 2001Coleman County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2001, 12:29 AM CDT for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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
Sep 9, 2001, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2001, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Coleman County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 9, 1:15 AM CDTHail 0.75Leaday, 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 235 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 00:00Z on 2001-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3809 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3809 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.0

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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 Sep 8, 2:54 PM CDT, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:54 PM CDT, 9 hours 35 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
254 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001

SPC PONDERING WATCH IN VICINITY OF STALLED FRONT ACROSS THE BIG
COUNTRY. CAPES IN EXCESS OF 4000 J/KG ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF
THE SJT CWFA. SAVING GRACE STRONG CAP. BUT CAP SOON TO ERODE AS
LARGE SCALE VERTICAL MOTION ASSOCIATED WITH POTENT SHORTWAVE
TROUGH ARRIVES. STAY TUNED.

WITH EXTREME INSTABILITY...COPIOUS MOISTURE AND FAVORABLE
DYNAMICS...OPTED FOR LIKELY OR CATEGORICAL POPS ACROSS MOST OF
THE CWFA. GOING TO MENTION POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT AS STRONG COLD FRONT
PLOWS SOUTHWARD.

LINGERING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED SUNDAY OVER THE
SOUTHERN HALF. GRADUAL CLEARING SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AS HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS AT THE SURFACE. TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY BENIGN
WITH AMPLE SUNSHINE AND SEASONAL TEMPERATURES.

PRELIMS...

ABI 063/076/057/082 7000
SJT 065/075/059/085 6200
JCT 068/074/062/084 8400

.SJT...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 8, 11:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTShackelford37 min
Sep 8, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan41 min
Sep 8, 8:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTShackelford3 hr
Sep 8, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCallahan30 min
Sep 8, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCallahan44 min
Sep 8, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown, Coleman57 min
Sep 8, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown, Coleman42 min
Sep 8, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown33 min
Sep 8, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown43 min
Sep 8, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman54 min
Sep 9, 1:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman29 min
Sep 9, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman60 min
Sep 9, 7:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMenard3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.