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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 8, 2001Nolan County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2001, 4:22 PM CST for Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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: Mar 8, 2001, 4:22 PM CST (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2001, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Nolan County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Mar 8, 2:13 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 2:13 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
213 PM CST THU MAR 8 2001

AT 20Z THE POTENT UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS SITUATED NEAR BIG SPRING...PER
VISIBLE IMAGERY. PER LOCAL WARNING RADARS...DRYLINE EXTENDED FROM SONORA
AND SAN ANGELO...TO ROBERT LEE AND SWEETWATER. SCATTERED STORMS HAVE
FIRED ON THE DRYLINE...AS EXPECTED. CELL THAT HIT THE SJT REGIONAL
AIRPORT PRODUCED PEA SIZE HAIL...DESPITE PUNY VILS AND MEAGER MID AND
HIGH LRM/S. NO DOUBT COLD CORE ALOFT AIDING CAUSE. SEVERE STORMS STILL
POSSIBLE...MAINLY EAST OF A BALLINGER TO SONORA LINE...AS LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE MORE PLENTIFUL. SEE NEW DAY1 OUTLOOK. ELSEWHERE...EXTENSIVE
WRAP AROUND CLOUDINESS CAN BE SEEN ACROSS NEW MEXICO AND NORTHERN
TEXAS.

BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE TO REMAIN RATHER HIGH THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST
PERIOD. EXTENSIVE WRAP AROUND CLOUDINESS AND SCATTERED PRECIP THE RULE
TONIGHT...AS THE UPPER LOW TRACKS ALONG INTERSTATE 20. ON FRIDAY...WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS COMES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE
AND ALOFT. BUT DESPITE THE PRESENCE OF DOWNWARD SYNOPTIC SCALE MOTION...
THE BOUNDARY LAYER REMAINS VERY MOIST...DUE IN PART TO RECENT RAINFALL.
AS THE SURFACE RIDGE MOVES EAST OF THE AREA...RETURN FLOW MATERIALIZES...
PROMOTING MORE CLOUD COVER FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...AS YET
ANOTHER UPPER LOW TAKES SHAPE OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST.

PRELIMS...

ABI 042/061/043/064 3000
SJT 042/060/044/067 2000
JCT 043/062/043/065 3000

.SJT...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 2:58 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-090000-

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
258 PM CST THU MAR 8 2001

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MAINLY THE
EASTERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ADDITION...
A DRYLINE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION.
WITH UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE...SCATTERED
STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL OCCUR DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED..

THIS OUTLOOK WILL RESUME SCHEDULED ISSUANCE ON MARCH 15 2001.
HOWEVER... THIS OUTLOOK WILL CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED AS NEEDED WHEN
THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST, 52 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
Mar 8, 2:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels, Tom Green	27 min
Mar 8, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	66 min
Mar 8, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	47 min
Mar 8, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	47 min
Mar 8, 4:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	61 min
Mar 8, 5:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	60 min
Mar 8, 5:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	65 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.