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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS San Angelo, TX

August 26, 2002Nolan County, Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 6:22 PM CDT for Nolan County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
Aug 26, 2002, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Nolan County, TX, Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 12:00Z on 2002-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 215 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 12:00Z on 2002-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -80 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
215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-462 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.