Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2003, 7:47 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 24, 2003, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
874 WUUS54 KSJT 250047 SVRSJT TXC451-250130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 746 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN TOM GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 743 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHRISTOVAL...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTH OF SAN ANGELO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WINDS TO 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHRISTOVAL AT 800 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE...DAMAGING WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3108 10037 3116 10026 3135 10055 3118 10069 $$
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 24, 2:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 207 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2003 ...MORE RAINFALL POTENTIAL ON HORIZON... .TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY... 500 MB HEIGHTS WILL BE ON THE RISE...SO WARMER AND DRIER. BUT THE UPPER HIGH CENTER WILL REMAIN ANCHORED ACROSS THE CENTRAL ROCKIES INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS...SPARING WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OF BRUTAL HEAT (100 F PLUS). SO FAR...IT/S BEEN THE SUMMER WITHOUT OPPRESSIVE HEAT...MAINLY BECAUSE THE UPPER HIGH CENTER HAS STAYED AWAY FROM TEXAS. ABILENE HAS HIT 100 F ONLY THREE TIMES SO FAR THIS YEAR. BACK IN 2000...ABILENE HIT 100 F OR BETTER 40 TIMES .SUNDAY AND MONDAY... INVERTED UPPER TROUGH SLIDES WESTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...ON SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES/CENTRAL PLAINS UPPER HIGH. INFLUX OF GULF MOISTURE TO RESULT IN PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES... ESPECIALLY SOUTH HALF. FEATURE WILL ALSO KEEP TEMPERATURES IN CHECK. PROSPECTS FOR RAIN NOT ZERO...BUT WE/LL FOREGO POPS AS THE DEEPER MOISTURE REMAINS CLOSER TO THE TEXAS GULF COAST. .TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... MRF CONSISTENT WITH ANOTHER COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS (TUESDAY). UNUSUAL TO GET ONE...MUCH LESS TWO...LATE JULY COLD FRONTAL PASSAGES. POPS ALREADY INCLUDED FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AREAWIDE. WE/LL ADD TOKEN POP FOR THURSDAY IN THE VICINITY OF INTERSTATE 10...NEAR THE REMNANTS OF THE FRONT. BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES EXPECTED WITH CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION. PRELIMS... ABI 073/097/074/096 073 0000 SJT 072/098/072/096 071 0000 JCT 070/097/071/095 071 0000 .SJT...NONE. 17
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 2:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-251900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 208 PM CDT THU JUL 24 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A WEAK COLD FRONT MAY MOVE DOWN INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. IF THIS OCCURS...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR NEAR THE FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 19
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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.