Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2003, 8:08 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2003, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tom Green County, TX
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 260108 SVRSJT TXC451-260200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 807 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TOM GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 801 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARRIET...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAN ANGELO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3145 10036 3149 10026 3157 10032 3154 10040 $$ 17
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 25, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 200 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2003 TONIGHT... MODELS HAVING TROUBLE WITH SFC FEATURES AND APPROACHING UPPER TROF. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY STRADDLED I20 ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. THE AIRMASS SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY HAS CONTINUED TO SLOWLY DESTABILIZE. THE SFC BASED CAPES WERE RISING INTO THE 1000 TO 1500 J/KG RANGE. ALSO...AN AREA OF DIFFLUENCE WAS MOVING INTO THE BIG BEND AREA AND WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS THE CONCHO ALLEY LATER TONIGHT. SPC MESO ANALYSIS SHOWS THIS DIVERGENCE AT 3H. AT THE SFC...A WEAK SFC TROF APPEARS TO REFLECT THIS DIFFLUENCE/DIVERGENCE EXTENDING FROM BWD TO SJT TO FST TO A SFC LOW BETWEEN ELP AND MAF. EXPECT THE UPPER TROF TO CONTINUE TO UNDERCUT THE UPPER RIDGE AS IT MOVES ESE. EXPECT...CONVECTION DEVELOPING TO OUR WEST TO GRADUALLY SPREAD EAST TONIGHT AS A MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM. ALSO...ANY CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS ALONG FRONT/OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL MOVE SOUTH. AS UPPER TROF APPROACHES SHOULD SEE BETTER LOW LEVEL JET. WENT W/60 POPS FOR MUCH OF WC TX TONIGHT...AND WILL ADD MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL BECAUSE OF SLOW STORM MOVEMENT. MEMORIAL DAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... EXPECT FRONT TO SAG A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH AND GO STATIONARY. AS IT DOES...MODELS PROG AN AREA OF DIFFLUENCE ALONG THE STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE TRANS PECOS REGION. THIS COULD GIVE US ADDITIONAL CHANCES OF RAINFALL. THINGS SHOULD BEGIN DRYING OUT ON WEDNESDAY...ALTHOUGH CANT RULE OUT SOME ISOLATED TSTORMS SINCE WE CONTINUE TO BE IN NW FLOW ALOFT. THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... UPPER HIGH IS PROGGED BY ALL LONG RANGE MODELS TO BUILD INTO WC TX AND SHOULD HELP TO DRY US OUT. SUNDAY... WENT AHEAD AND INSERTED A LOW POP AS MODELS PROG A WEAK UPPER TROF INTO WC TX. ALSO...LEE SIDE TROFING DEVELOPS BENEATH STRONGER ZONAL FLOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. COULD MEAN THE RETURN OF THE DRYLINE. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 057/076/058/079 6322 SJT 061/078/060/081 6433 JCT 062/083/063/082 6433 .SJT...NONE. GUERRERO/WRIGHT/BACKER
Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 2:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-261930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS THROUGH TONIGHT FOR AREAS SOUTH OF THE BIG COUNTRY. A COMPLEX OF STORMS IS DEVELOPING ACROSS FAR WEST TEXAS AND INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM NOW ENTERING FAR WEST TEXAS. AS THIS COMPLEX OF STORMS APPROACHES OUR CWA LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT... A FEW OF STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN CONCERN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WITH A FRONT MOVING THROUGH AND THEN STALLING OUT ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. OTHERWISE...A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TONIGHT. 15
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 3:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ154-155-170-022040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 320 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2003 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... MCCULLOCH...SAN SABA AND MASON. THE SYSTEM WHICH PROMPTED THE WATCH HAS NOW MOVED OFF TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE FORECAST AREA. 24
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 115 min |
| May 25, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 56 min |
| May 25, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 63 min |
| May 25, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 64 min |
| May 25, 11:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 2 hr |
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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.