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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 24, 2001Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 5:21 PM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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
May 24, 2001, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Sutton County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 2001-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 861 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
861 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-494 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 24, 3:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
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WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
220 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SOUTH OF A MERTZON...SAN ANGELO...SAN SABA
LINE.

A COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED SOUTH OF A METZON...SAN ANGELO... SAN SABA
LINE AT 2 PM. THE AIRMASS IS UNSTABLE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT.
CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT...COMBINED WITH SUFFICIENT VERTICAL WIND
SHEAR PROFILES WILL SUPPORT THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISOLATED SEVERE
STORM LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER
THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT...AS AN UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE OVER THE REGION. THESE STORMS WILL BE MAINLY
SOUTH OF A STERLING CITY...BALLINGER....BROWNWOOD LINE. WITH ONLY
WEAK INSTABILITY...SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED WITH THESE LATE
NIGHT STORMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT
LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR
THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH
TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble, Sutton40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.