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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2003, 6:26 PM CDT for Haskell 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2003, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Haskell 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 7, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
288 WUUS54 KSJT 072326 SVRSJT TXC207-080030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 626 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HASKELL...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF STAMFORD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HASKELL AT 635 PM CDT IRBY AT 655 PM CDT HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 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 3313 9998 3296 9991 3304 9950 3335 9956 $$
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 7, 5:37 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 5:37 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 537 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 UPDATED THE ZONES AT 515 PM FOR TORNADO WATCH IN THE BIG COUNTRY...AND TO INCLUDE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EARLY TONIGHT CONCHO VALLEY...WHERE ENHANCED CUMULUS FIELD EXISTS. 400 PM DISCUSSION... CURRENT...SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATING CUMULUS DEVELOPING ALONG A BOUNDARY WHICH EXTENDS FROM THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CONCHO VALLEY INTO THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY. SO FAR...THE CAP IS HOLDING. DAYS 1-3...GIVEN CURRENT CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT...WILL CONTINUE LOW POPS ACROSS OUR NORTHERN ZONES FOR TONIGHT. NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL BE FRIDAY WHEN THE DRYLINE WILL PROVIDE A SURFACE FOCUS AS IT BEGINS TO MIGRATE SLOWLY EAST AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS SATURDAY. WILL CONTINUE LOW POPS MAINLY FOR THE BIG COUNTRY FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. NUMBER CLOSE TO GUIDANCE LOOK GOOD. DAYS 4-7...MOISTURE RETURNS QUICKLY AFTER THE FRONT IN THE FORM OF A DRYLINE. WILL CONTINUE SLIGHT CHANCE OVER MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH MID WEEK...ESPECIALLY GIVE UNCERTAINTY OF THE DRYLINE POSITION FOR THESE PERIODS. THANKS TO OUN...FTW...AND LBB FOR COORDINATION WITH GRIDS. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 070/094/066/090 2002 SJT 070/095/068/093 1000 JCT 072/093/071/091 0000 .SJT...NONE. 23/HUBER
Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-081930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 215 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. DUE TO WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT...ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE FRIDAY AND EARLY SATURDAY...AND AGAIN ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 61 min |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 60 min |
| May 7, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 65 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.