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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 29, 2003Brown County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2003, 10:11 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
Apr 29, 2003, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 29, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1115 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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 Apr 29, 9:30 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 9:30 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 3:12 PM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-302015-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
312 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

AS THE DRYLINE PUSHES INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...SCATTERED SEVERE
STORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH LATE EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

WITH THE DRYLINE CONTINUING TO REMAIN NEAR OR ACROSS THE AREA...
ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE
WEEKEND.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THIS EVENING FOR MUCH OF WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels65 min
Apr 29, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTNolan50 min
Apr 29, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke61 min
Apr 29, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels55 min
Apr 29, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCoke47 min
Apr 29, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTNolan29 min
Apr 29, 8:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTNolan3 hr
Apr 29, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor53 min
Apr 29, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels60 min
Apr 29, 8:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTRunnels3 hr
Apr 29, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan60 min
Apr 29, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke42 min
Apr 29, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels64 min
Apr 29, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan46 min
Apr 29, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman58 min
Apr 29, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor39 min
Apr 29, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan44 min
Apr 29, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones55 min
Apr 29, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman47 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.