Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2003, 4:58 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 8, 2003, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kimble County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 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 Aug 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 345 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2003 CURRENT...SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATING SOME CONVECTION BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. AT THE SURFACE...TEMPERATURES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAVE ONCE AGAIN PUSHED PAST THE 100 DEGREE MARK...WITH BROWNWOOD AND SAN SABA NEAR 110. DAYS 1-3...A SURFACE TROF CONTINUES TO SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. BEST POPS WILL BE ACROSS OUR SOUTHEASTERN ZONES...WITH THE BEST MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY. MODELS DEVELOP AN MCS ALONG THIS TROF TOMORROW NIGHT. THE CENTER OF THIS COMPLEX...AND THUS THE BEST RAINFALL...WILL LIKELY BE EAST OF OUR AREA. HOWEVER...OUR EAST COUNTIES MAY SEE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. POPS DECREASE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...BEFORE ANOTHER SURFACE FRONT APPROACHES THE BIG COUNTRY FROM THE NORTH SUNDAY NIGHT. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF TRIPLE DIGIT HIGHS TOMORROW AFTERNOON ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...BEFORE INCREASING CLOUDS SUNDAY BRING SOME RELIEF FROM THE TRIPLE DIGITS. MODEL MOS NUMBERS LOOK GOOD FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS TONIGHT. HOWEVER...MOS NUMBERS AROUND 70 LOOK TOO COOL FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT. THUS...WILL GO WITH NUMBERS CLOSER TO PERSISTENCE FOR LOWS THOSE TWO NIGHTS. DAYS 4-7...MODELS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE A SURFACE LOW INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS LOOKS REASONABLE GIVE THE CURRENT POSITION OF THE LONGWAVE PATTERN. BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...ESPECIALLY OVER OUR EASTERN ZONES...GIVEN THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDED UPPER-LEVEL SUPPORT ON THOSE TWO DAYS. STILL NOT CONFIDENT WITH MRF MOS TEMPERATURES...BELIEVE THEY ARE TOO COOL. THUS...WILL GO WITH NUMBERS CLOSER TO SEASONAL AVERAGES. ABI 076/101/075/096/075 2222- SJT 075/102/075/096/075 22221 JCT 075/101/074/094/074 33332 .SJT...NONE. 23/HUBER
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-091900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 200 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DOWNBURST WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 09
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 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.