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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 18, 2001Brown County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2001, 8:18 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 18, 2001, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Brown County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 18, 8:25 PM CDTHail 1May, 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 2001-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1787 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 2001-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
1787 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.9

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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 18, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
617 PM CDT TUE SEP 18 2001

QUICK ZONE UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR ONGOING CONVECTION. INCREASED POPS
SLIGHTLY ACROSS THE CONCHO VALLEY AND ADDED POPS TO THE NORTHERN
EDWARDS PLATEAU.

07

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 18, 7:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX
707 PM CDT TUE SEP 18 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    2 E BLACKWELL             TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
09/18/01   NOLAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 18, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels57 min
Sep 18, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor56 min
Sep 18, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green66 min
Sep 18, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho56 min
Sep 18, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho62 min
Sep 18, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown57 min
Sep 18, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.