Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2003, 2:15 PM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Jul 23, 2003, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2003, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sutton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 3092 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 23, 2:14 PM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:14 PM CDT, 1 minute before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 214 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURING ALONG SOUTHWARD MOVING WEAK COLD FRONT IN OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES. EXPECT THESE TO CONTINUE A SOUTHWARD MOVEMENT OUT OF OUR COUNTIES DURING THE EVENING BEFORE DISSIPATING WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. WILL MONITOR RADAR TRENDS FOR POP AND RAIN CHANCE WORDING THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. AT THE MOMENT LEANING TOWARD A 20 POP FOR SOUTHERN COUNTIES. TAIL END OF WEAK FRONT SHOULD STALL OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL TX TONIGHT...THEN DISSOLVE WITH SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW DEVELOPING. UPPER HIGH TO REMAIN CENTERED OVER FOUR CORNERS REGION INTO LATE WEEK...BEFORE EXPANDING EASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS OVER THE WEEKEND. THE 850 MILLIBAR TEMPERATURE PATTERN INDICATES THAT THE HOTTER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR IN THE TX PANHANDLE AND HIGH PLAINS...WITH MID TO UPPER 90S EXPECTED IN WEST CENTRAL TX. FOR SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...PLAN TO KEEP A DRY FORECAST IN THE ZONES. AT THIS TIME...THINKING IS THAT LACK OF SUBSTANTIVE UPPER OR SURFACE SUPPORT ALONG WITH QUESTIONABLE MOISTURE YIELD LOW CONFIDENCE IN RAIN CHANCES FOR WEST CENTRAL TX. WILL CARRY A LESS THAN 10 POP IN THE GRIDS. WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE FOR TEMPERATURES. ABI 069/095/070/095/073 00000 SJT 069/096/070/096/071 00000 JCT 070/095/071/095/072 20000 .SJT...NONE. 19
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 4:27 AM CDT, 9 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-241030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 427 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO EDGE SOUTHWARD INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND REGIONS TODAY BEFORE STALLING THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FEW STORMS MAY OCCUR OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THURSDAY ALONG THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 41 min |
| Jul 23, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 39 min |
| Jul 23, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.