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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 10, 2001Fisher County, Jones County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2001, 2:28 PM CDT for Fisher County, Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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: Oct 10, 2001, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fisher County, TX, Jones County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 10, 2:52 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Anson, TX	Golf ball size hail reported in Anson in central Jones County.
Oct 10, 3:04 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Avoca, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 10, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 Oct 10, 11:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 11:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 10, 10:06 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX
1006 AM CDT WED OCT 10 2001

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

0955 AM    STAMFORD                  TX   .88 INCH HAIL
10/10/01   JONES                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN
                                          STAMFORD ALONG THE JONES
                                          AND HASKELL COUNTY LINE.

0955 AM    STAMFORD                  TX   .88 INCH HAIL
10/10/01   HASKELL

0957 AM    STAMFORD                  TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/10/01   JONES                          GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN
                                          STAMFORD ALONG THE JONES
                                          AND HASKELL COUNTY LINE

0957 AM    STAMFORD                  TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/10/01   HASKELL

Local storm report, Oct 10, 10:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 11:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 11:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 11:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 10, 9:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	53 min
Oct 10, 10:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	49 min
Oct 10, 10:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	80 min
Oct 10, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	60 min
Oct 10, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	46 min
Oct 10, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	15 min
Oct 10, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	65 min
Oct 10, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	48 min

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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.