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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 27, 2002Menard County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2002, 9:10 PM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 27, 2002, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Menard County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3101 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 00:00Z on 2002-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1249 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
3.7

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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 27, 7:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
748 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002

RECENTLY ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #349 REPLACES THE TORNADO
WATCH #343 FOR MOST OF OUR COUNTIES (EXCEPT HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON
COUNTIES). WILL SEND A ZONE UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE NEW SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THUNDERSTORM THREAT TO END AROUND MIDNIGHT OR
SHORTLY THEREAFTER.

.SJT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS EXCEPT
HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 6:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO, TX
603 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002

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

0435 PM    ROBERT LEE                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/02   COKE

0509 PM    6 N MILES                 TX   2.50 INCH HAIL
05/27/02   RUNNELS

0515 PM    2 N ORIENT                TX   2.50 INCH HAIL
05/27/02   TOM GREEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green58 min
May 27, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke50 min
May 27, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba62 min
May 27, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion56 min
May 27, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green65 min
May 27, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho65 min
May 27, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher61 min
May 27, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho52 min
May 27, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch65 min
May 27, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher45 min
May 27, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton42 min
May 27, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMason80 min
May 27, 10:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMcCulloch2 hr
May 27, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble55 min
May 27, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba61 min
May 27, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble46 min
May 28, 6:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTShackelford2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every 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.