Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2003, 9:47 AM CDT for Sutton 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
- May 6, 2003, 9:47 AM CDT (14:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sutton 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 5257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.7
- Supercell composite
- 20.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
293 WUUS54 KSJT 061447 SVRSJT TXC435-061530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 946 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 941 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL SUTTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF SONORA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... HIGHWAY 864 ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SONORA AT 10 AM HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3068 10050 3053 10051 3052 10014 3071 10013 $$ 08
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 May 6, 9:00 AM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 9:00 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 900 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 WILL BE SENDING UPDATE SHORTLY FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES. ELEVATED SUPERCELL OVER SCHLEICHER COUNTY WILL CONTINUE WITH STRONG WARM ADVECTION OVER THE DRYLINE IN COMBINATION WITH STRONG SHORTWAVE. UPDATE TO COME OUT SOON. 27/BRAZZELL .CURRENT...DRYLINE HAS RETREATED INTO THE HEARTLAND. JUNCTION SHOULD SEE A DEWPOINT SPIKE SOON. QUITE A CONTRAST EITHER SIDE...WITH MID 30S AT JUNCTION AND ABILENE...AND LOWER 60S AT BROWNWOOD. MOISTURE RATHER SHALLOW...FOR 850 MB PLOT VOID OF ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL. PER WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...SUBTROPICAL JET SKIRTING THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY AND HEARTLAND. .TODAY...00Z MESOETA BRINGS A WEAK SHORTWAVE...EMBEDDED WITHIN THE SUBTROPICAL JET...ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY AND HEARTLAND. DRYLINE WILL MAKE THE ITS USUAL EASTWARD PUSH...BUT PERHAPS NOT FAST ENOUGH TO IGNORE THUNDER THREAT. COMBINATION OF CONVERGENCE ALONG DRYLINE...WEAK UPPER SUPPORT...MODEST MOISTURE AND DECENT INSTABILITY WARRANTS TOKEN POP ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY AND HEARTLAND. NEW DAY1 OUTLOOK FROM SPC CONCURS. TEMPERATURES THE OTHER WILD CARD...AS BONE DRIER AIRMASS ALLOWS THE WEST AND CENTRAL ZONES TO REALLY HEAT UP. GUIDANCE REMINDS ME OF THE TEXAS LOTTERY...JUST PICK A NUMBER...ANY NUMBER. RATHER THAN BITE ON INCONSISTENT GUIDANCE...WE/LL LEAN TOWARD PERSISTENCE. .WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY...DRYLINE TO MEANDER ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA... JOGGING WESTWARD INTO THE CENTRAL COUNTIES BY NIGHT...THEN ADVANCING EASTWARD TOWARD SAN SABA...BROWNWOOD AND MASON BY DAY. CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLATED THUNDER ACROSS THE HEARTLAND AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY. PERHAPS ENOUGH CONVERGENCE ALONG THE DRYLINE...COUPLED WITH WEAK DISTURBANCES IN SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...TO POP A TOP OR TWO. .FRIDAY-MONDAY...850 MB EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE RIDGE... ANCHORED BY DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 60S...BACKS WESTWARD INTO THE FORECAST AREA FRIDAY NIGHT. SURFACE DEWPOINTS LIKELY PUSHING 70 F. MEANWHILE...STOUT UPPER LOW TO EJECT INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS...WITH THE ASSOCIATED PACIFIC FRONT DRIVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. RAIN CHANCES LOOK PRETTY GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT WITH ABOVE SCENARIO... ESPECIALLY WHEN CONSIDERING CONVERGENCE ALONG THE SURFACE-850 MB PACIFIC FRONT. THINGS CAN CHANGE FOR THE WORST...SO INHERITED LOW POP PRUDENT. WE/LL ALSO RETAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...FOR IT APPEARS THE MOISTURE WILL NOT GET SWEPT AWAY. UPPER DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO INFRINGE UPON THE FORECAST AREA... AIDING DEVELOPMENT. PRELIMS... ABI 096/061/095/067 0000 SJT 098/062/097/066 0000 JCT 095/064/095/069 1111 .SJT...NONE. 17
Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 5:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-071030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 530 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FURTHEST SOUTHEAST COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. THERE IS ALSO A SLIM POSSIBILIY FOR THESE TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER SPOTTERS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FEW STORMS MAY DEVELOP WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IN THE SOUTHEAST. HOWEVER THE BEST CHANCES FOR STORMS...ALBEIT STILL A SLIM CHANCE...WILL BE FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 24
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 6, 8:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
0826 AM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0812 PM 15 SE HASKELL TX FX TORNADO
05/03/03 HASKELL SPOTTERS REPORTED THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A TORNADO
WITH THE NEW MESOCYCLONE TO
THE SOUTHEAST OF THE OLD
ONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE
LARGE TORNADO THAT MOVED
OVER LAKE STAMFORD. FX
MEANS THAT AN F-SCALE
RATING HAS YET TO BE
DETERMINED.
0810 PM 10 SE HASKELL TX FX TORNADO
05/03/03 HASKELL SPOTTERS REPORTED A LARGE
TORNADO. FX MEANS THAT AN
F-SCALE RATING HAS YET TO
BE DETERMINED.
0725 PM HASKELL TX 1.75 IN HAIL
05/03/03 HASKELL
0721 PM 7 S HASKELL TX 4.25 IN HAIL
05/03/03 HASKELL SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL
0720 PM 5 S HASKELL TX 2.75 IN HAIL
05/03/03 HASKELL BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
0720 PM 8 S HASKELL TX FX TORNADO
05/03/03 HASKELL MULTIPLE VORTEX TORNADO
REPORTED SOUTH OF HASKELL.
FX MEANS THAT AN F-SCALE
RATING HAS YET TO BE
DETERMINED.
0711 PM 2 S RULE TX FX TORNADO
05/03/03 HASKELL POSSIBLE TORNADO. CAR
DAMAGED BY FLYING DEBRIS.
FX MEANS THAT AN F-SCALE
HAS YET TO BE DETERMINED.
BRAZZELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 52 min |
| May 6, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard, Schleicher | 65 min |
| May 6, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 45 min |
| May 6, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 50 min |
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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.