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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 26, 2005Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 5:15 AM CST for Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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: Mar 26, 2005, 5:15 AM CST (11:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2005, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kimble County, TX, Sutton County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:18 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 26, 1:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 1262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 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 Mar 26, 3:40 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 3:40 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
340 AM CST SAT MAR 26 2005

.SHORT TERM...
WILL SEE INCREASING UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE ALOFT AS UPPER LOW OVER
SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO MOVES SOUTHEAST INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN
THIS AFTERNOON. GETTING HAIL REPORTS UP TO QUARTER SIZE AND WILL
LIKELY SEE CONTINUED STORMS THIS MORNING WITH STRONG MID LEVEL
INSTABILITY AS UPPER LOW MOVES TOWARD REGION. STRONGEST CONVECTION WILL
LIKELY MOVE INTO EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON. MAY
SEE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS...DUE TO TRAINING.
MAIN NEGATIVES TOWARD A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE LOW ANTECEDENT
RAINFALL. 850 MB FRONT WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHERN COUNTIES THIS
AFTERNOON...AND MAY SEE SOME STRONG STORMS THERE ALSO LATER TODAY.
WILL HOLD OFF ON FLASH FLOOD WATCH RIGHT NOW...BUT MAY RECONSIDER
IN A COUPLE HOURS IF TRAINING CONTINUES.

.LONG TERM...
UPPER LOW MOVES EAST SUNDAY MORNING WITH DECREASING CLOUDS IN THE
MORNING. SHOULD SEE A NICE TEMPERATURE INCREASE IN AFTERNOON WITH
WEST/NORTHWEST DOWNSLOPE WINDS. NEXT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM IS NORTH
OF THE REGION THURSDAY...AND MOISTURE STARVED TO THE SOUTH. WILL
NOT PUT ANY POPS IN YET.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ABILENE      46  36  61  40 /  90  70  10   0
SAN ANGELO   56  39  65  37 /  70  30  10   0
JUNCTION     62  41  66  34 /  60  30  10   0

&&

.SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALL COUNTIES UNTIL 8 AM.

&&

04

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 4:57 AM CST, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 26, 1:47 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
147 AM CST SAT MAR 26 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0133 AM     HAIL             ROBERT LEE              31.89N 100.48W
03/26/2005  1.00 INCH        COKE               TX   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 26, 2:44 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
244 AM CST SAT MAR 26 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0242 AM     HAIL             GRAPE CREEK             31.58N 100.55W
03/26/2005  0.88 INCH        TOM GREEN          TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

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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
Mar 25, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	52 min
Mar 25, 6:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	27 min
Mar 25, 7:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Mason	31 min
Mar 25, 7:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	28 min
Mar 26, 1:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Taylor, Tom Green	62 min
Mar 26, 1:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	43 min
Mar 26, 1:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Nolan, Taylor	57 min
Mar 26, 2:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	48 min
Mar 26, 2:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Irion, Tom Green	45 min
Mar 26, 2:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Taylor	66 min
Mar 26, 2:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion	47 min
Mar 26, 3:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	44 min
Mar 26, 3:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	46 min
Mar 26, 4:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	26 min
Mar 26, 5:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	46 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.