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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 17, 2002Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2002, 4:36 PM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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 17, 2002, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2002, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sutton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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 2002-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 292 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 2002-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 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
292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-526 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.