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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 8, 2002Menard County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 11:51 PM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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 8, 2002, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2002, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Menard County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1987 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 8, 10:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 10:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 9:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

TXZ066-072-073-077-128-139-140-154-155-168-170-090300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
930 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002

...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS...

THE TORNADO WATCH...ISSUED AT 445 PM CDT...HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR
SCHLEICHER...TOM GREEN...RUNNELS...AND CALLAHAN COUNTIES. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THESE COUNTIES AND ARE
NOT EXPECTED TO THREATEN AGAIN THIS EVENING.

THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COLEMAN...BROWN...CONCHO...
MCCULLOCH...SAN SABA...MENARD...AND MASON COUNTIES. PEOPLE IN THESE
COUNTIES SHOULD BE READY TO QUICKLY MOVE TO SHELTER IF SEVERE
WEATHER IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

ALSO...STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR
FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	70 min
May 8, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	65 min
May 8, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Menard	60 min
May 8, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	61 min
May 8, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	54 min
May 8, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	59 min
May 8, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.