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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 2, 2004Mason County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2004, 4:42 PM CST for Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 2, 2004, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 2, 2004, 5:30 PM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mason County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 2, 2:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-04-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1046 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-04-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
1046 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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 Apr 2, 3:36 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:36 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 4:00 PM CST, 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 10:08 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho37 min
Apr 2, 10:19 AM CSTTornado WarningSJTConcho26 min
Apr 2, 10:45 AM CSTTornado WarningSJTConcho45 min
Apr 2, 10:58 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell62 min
Apr 2, 11:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTColeman105 min
Apr 2, 12:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Tom Green44 min
Apr 2, 1:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green47 min
Apr 2, 1:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion57 min
Apr 2, 1:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling44 min
Apr 2, 2:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green60 min
Apr 2, 2:11 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTConcho, Tom Green64 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.