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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS San Angelo, TX

July 9, 2005Coke County, Nolan County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2005, 7:20 PM CDT for Coke County, Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
Jul 9, 2005, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Coke County, TX, Nolan County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 305 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 00:00Z on 2005-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 941 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2005-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
941 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Jul 9, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
250 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2005

.SHORT TERM...
LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES DOMINATE
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. LAST HOUR...SURFACE
TEMPERATURES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ARE IN THE 90 TO 93 RANGE
...A DEGREE OR TWO COOLER THAN THIS TIME YESTERDAY.

MODELS CONTINUE THIS PATTERN FOR THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HOURS. BY
MONDAY AFTERNOON...THE UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE WILL BE CENTERED NEAR THE
FOUR CORNERS AREA OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. THIS GRADUAL SHIFT WILL
TRANSITION THE UPPER-LEVEL FLOW OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FROM
NORTHWEST TO NORTH INTO MORE DOMINATE NORTHEAST FLOW. THIS
SHIFT...ALONG WITH WHAT REMAINS OF HURRICANE DENNIS...WILL LIKELY
BRING MORE SUBSIDING AIR OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. UNTIL
THEN...WILL CONTINUE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
OVER OUR WESTERN COUNTIES ONLY. WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SLIGHTLY
MORE CLOUD COVER OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS
WILL GO WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS A DEGREE OR TWO BELOW MAV MOS.

.LONG TERM...
MODELS CONTINUE TO BUILD A VERY LARGE UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE AND SHIFT
ITS CENTER FROM THE FOUR CORNERS AREA INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES BY
NEXT FRIDAY. THIS WILL ENHANCE THE NORTHEAST FLOW ALOFT OVER WEST
CENTRAL TEXAS AND FURTHER DECREASE RAIN CHANCES FOR WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS. AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100 LOOK
REASONABLE INTO THE START OF NEXT WEEKEND.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ABILENE      72  95  73  96 /  10  10  10  10
SAN ANGELO   73  96  72  98 /  10  10  10  10
JUNCTION     72  96  71  96 /  10  10  10  10

&&

.SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

23/HUBER
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 2:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
235 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2005

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-101935-
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-
235 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A SWEETWATER...
SAN ANGELO...SONORA LINE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS TO
40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ORGANIZED SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN SUNDAY AND
SUNDAY EVENING WEST OF A SWEETWATER...SAN ANGELO...SONORA LINE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Tom Green50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.