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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 30, 2002Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2002, 4:29 AM CST for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
Mar 30, 2002, 4:29 AM CST (10:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2002, 5:30 AM CST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tom Green County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 29, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 305 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 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 Mar 30, 4:00 AM CST, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 4:00 AM CST, 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 7:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Nolan43 min
Mar 29, 7:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher30 min
Mar 29, 7:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling38 min
Mar 29, 8:11 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTCoke, Sterling49 min
Mar 29, 8:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Nolan40 min
Mar 29, 9:06 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTCoke, Nolan24 min
Mar 29, 9:28 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTNolan, Taylor47 min
Mar 29, 9:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan, Taylor48 min
Mar 29, 10:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan46 min
Mar 29, 10:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion46 min
Mar 29, 11:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green66 min
Mar 30, 12:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, McCulloch50 min
Mar 30, 1:06 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett54 min
Mar 30, 1:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba52 min
Mar 30, 12:52 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTCoke53 min
Mar 30, 1:09 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTRunnels51 min
Mar 30, 1:48 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTCoke27 min
Mar 30, 2:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels60 min
Mar 30, 2:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown21 min
Mar 30, 2:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan, Taylor35 min
Mar 30, 2:19 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTTaylor56 min
Mar 30, 2:52 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTCallahan38 min
Mar 30, 3:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell56 min
Mar 30, 3:16 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTJones, Taylor59 min
Mar 30, 3:27 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTCallahan33 min
Mar 30, 5:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton35 min

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.