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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 284, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 6, 2003Schleicher County, Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 6, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT for Schleicher County, 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: Oct 6, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 6, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 6, 2:36 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 2:36 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 6, 2:35 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	65 min
Oct 5, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	55 min
Oct 6, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	49 min
Oct 6, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	47 min
Oct 6, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	57 min
Oct 6, 2:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Schleicher	119 min
Oct 6, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.