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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 4, 2002Throckmorton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 9:33 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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
Jun 4, 2002, 9:33 PM CDT (02:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Throckmorton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1816 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
1816 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT, 6 hours 25 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
308 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

SHOWERS AND STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND
PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON...AS UPPER LOW SPINS TOWARD THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS. SOME ACTIVITY ALSO DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST BIG
COUNTRY. MOST ACTIVITY DEVELOPING IN THE UPPER DIVERGENCE AREA AND
ALONG A COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM NEAR KLBB TO KOKC.

CONSIDERING ITS LOOK ON SATELLITE...STILL NOT SURE MODELS ARE DOING
JUSTICE TO THIS SYSTEM...WITH MODELS WEAKENING IT AS IT MOVES EAST.
AT THE SURFACE...COLD FRONT SHOULD CONTINUE ITS SOUTHWARD MOVEMENT.
MODELS PUSH THE FRONT INTO THE BIG COUNTRY BY MIDNIGHT...AND APPROACH
THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AROUND SUNRISE. AREAS
NORTH OF THE FRONT LOOK EXCELLENT FOR RAIN...AS NOSE OF THE LOW LEVEL
JET OVERRUNS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND THE UPPER DIVERGENCE WITH THE
UPPER LOW COINCIDE AS WELL. WILL INCREASE POPS FOR TONIGHT ACROSS THE
BOARD. FINALLY...GIVEN THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT...850 MB DEWPOINT AT
KMAF THIS MORNING WAS 20 WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES PUSHING 200
PERCENT OF NORMAL...WILL MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REST OF THE AREA WEDNESDAY MORNING...LEAVING
A COOLER DAY AS LOTS OF CLOUDS CONTINUE. MOST OF THE RAIN GRADUALLY
SHIFTS INTO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES DURING THE DAY AND ESPECIALLY
WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AS A WEAKER SHORTWAVE ROUNDS THE BASE OF THE TROUGH
AND EJECTS ACROSS MAINLY THE SOUTHERN ZONES. CLOUDS DECREASE FOR
THURSDAY...WITH MORE SUN AND SLIGHTLY WARMER CONDITIONS.

EXTENDED WISE...UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BACK INTO THE AREA FOR THE FIRST
PART OF THE WEEKEND...BUT BY SUNDAY THE MRF SHOWS AN UPPER TROUGH
PASSING WELL TO THE NORTH DRIVING ANOTHER COLD FRONT INTO THE AREA.
ALREADY CARRYING SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS FOR SUNDAY IN THE NORTH... AND
FOR MONDAY FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES. THIS LOOKS GOOD FOR
NOW AND WILL NOT CHANGE.

CCF PRELIMS...

ABI 062/081/061/086 7531
SJT 067/084/062/087 5541
JCT 070/086/062/086 4552

.SJT...NONE.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell70 min
Jun 4, 7:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTHaskell3 hr
Jun 4, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTHaskell56 min
Jun 4, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTJones64 min
Jun 4, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTThrockmorton59 min

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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.