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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS San Angelo, TX

November 20, 2004Concho County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 20, 2004, 2:19 PM CST for Concho County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
Nov 20, 2004, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Nov 20, 2004, 3:15 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Concho County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 294 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 12:00Z on 2004-11-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 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 12:00Z on 2004-11-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 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 Nov 20, 2:17 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 20, 2:17 PM CST, 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 20, 5:13 AM CST, 9 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
513 AM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-211112-
BROWN TX-CALLAHAN TX-COKE TX-COLEMAN TX-CONCHO TX-CROCKETT TX-
FISHER TX-HASKELL TX-IRION TX-JONES TX-KIMBLE TX-MASON TX-
MCCULLOCH TX-MENARD TX-NOLAN TX-RUNNELS TX-SAN SABA TX-SCHLEICHER TX-
SHACKELFORD TX-STERLING TX-SUTTON TX-TAYLOR TX-THROCKMORTON TX-
TOM GREEN TX-
513 AM CST SAT NOV 20 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER...HAZARDOUS WEATHER
IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE
THROUGH MONDAY AS A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM ACROSS THE WESTERN
PORTIONS OF THE U.S. MOVES EAST. BY MONDAY THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY
THAT ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL COMBINE WITH STRONG
DYNAMICS TO PRODUCE ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON.
THIS WILL BE MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 20, 2:12 PM CST, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 20, 1:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher24 min
Nov 20, 1:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba37 min
Nov 20, 3:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.