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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 26, 2005McCulloch County, Mason County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2005, 12:46 AM CDT for McCulloch County, Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: May 26, 2005, 12:46 AM CDT (05:46 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2005, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 281 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -238 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 May 25, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 2:15 PM CDT, 10 hours 31 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
215 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-261843-
BROWN-CALLAHAN-COKE-COLEMAN-CONCHO-CROCKETT-FISHER-HASKELL-IRION-
JONES-KIMBLE-MASON-MCCULLOCH-MENARD-NOLAN-RUNNELS-SAN SABA-
SCHLEICHER-SHACKELFORD-STERLING-SUTTON-TAYLOR-THROCKMORTON-TOM GREEN-
143 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

WE CONTINUE TO EXPECT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS...AS AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY BECOMES STATIONARY ACROSS THE
AREA. DUE TO A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR
...ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BECOME RAPIDLY SEVERE. THE
BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE NORTH
OF A ROBERT LEE TO BRADY LINE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS
WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY
DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.
IF SO...THIS COMPLEX WILL LIKELY MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS...POSSIBLY CENTERED ALONG AND EITHER SIDE OF A
LINE FROM STERLING CITY TO MASON. A FEW STORMS WITHIN THIS
COMPLEX MAY BE SEVERE.

ALSO...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT. LOCAL RAINFALL
AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS BY THURSDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WE MAY ACTIVATE OUR SPOTTERS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.

23/HUBER

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 9:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 9:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 10:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 10:46 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, May 25, 11:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 12:40 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	56 min
May 25, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	53 min
May 25, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	50 min
May 25, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	53 min
May 25, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	52 min
May 25, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	57 min
May 25, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	51 min
May 25, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	55 min
May 25, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Irion, Tom Green	36 min
May 25, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	60 min
May 25, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Sterling, Tom Green	45 min
May 25, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Taylor	39 min
May 25, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	66 min
May 25, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	31 min
May 25, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	46 min
May 26, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	35 min
May 26, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	19 min
May 26, 5:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	44 min
May 26, 8:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	46 min
May 26, 9:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.