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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT for Irion County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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 30, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Irion County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 30, 10:00 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 10:00 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1205 PM CDT FRI APR 30 2004 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-011705- 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- 1205 PM CDT FRI APR 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN HEARTLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... INCLUDING THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF ALBANY...ABILENE...CLYDE...COLEMAN AND BROWNWOOD. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AT MIDDAY...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM ROTAN TO HASKELL. THE DRYLINE STRETCHED FROM THE TIP OF CROCKETT COUNTY...TO BETWEEN SNYDER AND SWEETWATER. THE COLD FRONT WILL REACH INTERSTATE 20 BY 7 PM...WITH THE DRYLINE PUSHING EASTWARD INTO THE ABILENE...SAN ANGELO AND SONORA AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD RAPIDLY DEVELOP NEAR THESE BOUNDARIES. THE EASTERN BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN HEARTLAND ARE MORE PRONE TO SEVERE WEATHER FOR NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF THESE TWO BOUNDARIES. MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A SAN ANGELO TO BROWNWOOD LINE TONIGHT...WHERE AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED 2 INCHES LOCALLY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 30, 5:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
506 PM CDT FRI APR 30 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0500 PM TORNADO GLEN COVE 31.87N 99.64W
04/30/2004 COLEMAN TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
DPS TROPPER REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR GLEN COVE
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HGLocal storm report, Apr 30, 5:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
552 PM CDT FRI APR 30 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0550 PM HAIL 2 SE GLEN COVE 31.85N 99.61W
04/30/2004 4.25 INCH COLEMAN TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
0550 PM HAIL 2 SE GLEN COVE 31.85N 99.61W
04/30/2004 4.25 INCH COLEMAN TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
SOFT BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT HOARDS CREEK LAKE.
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HGLocal storm report, Apr 30, 7:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 39 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.