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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 3, 2006Fisher County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2006, 9:59 PM CDT for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 3, 2006, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2006, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fisher County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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
May 3, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 909 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
909 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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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 3, 9:17 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 9:17 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 3:23 PM CDT, 6 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
323 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-041915-
FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO-
CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD-
TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE-
MASON-
323 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT....ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE
20. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE THREATS BEING LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ALONG A CHILDRESS TO LUBBOCK LINE. SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT AND MOVE
SOUTHEAST INTO THE BIG COUNTRY THIS EVENING. ISOLATED STORMS WILL
OCCUR ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...WITH INITIAL
STORM DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE ACROSS THE HEARTLAND AND NORTHWEST HILL
COUNTRY. ALSO...ANY STORMS WILL PRODUCE DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN MOIST AND UNSTABLE INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE
IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS...MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM
BRADY TO SAN ANGELO TO STERLING CITY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND
NIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SLOWLY SOUTH. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK
OF SEVERE STORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FRIDAY NIGHT...AS MOIST
UNSTABLE AIR OVERRIDES THE COLD FRONT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS ARE THE GREATEST THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 4:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 3, 8:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
846 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

TXZ049-040245-
FISHER TX-
846 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR FISHER
COUNTY...

AT 843 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN KENT COUNTY 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ROTAN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAYTON...MOVING EAST
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

IF THIS THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES ON ITS PRESENT MOVEMENT AND HOLDS IN
STRENGTH...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY HAVE TO BE ISSUED FOR
FISHER COUNTY WITHIN AN HOUR.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell62 min
May 3, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Jones60 min
May 3, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones65 min
May 3, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton60 min
May 3, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell23 min
May 3, 11:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTFisher3 hr
May 3, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Jones, Nolan61 min
May 4, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones, Shackelford62 min
May 4, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor54 min
May 4, 1:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan, Taylor23 min
May 4, 1:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Nolan54 min
May 4, 2:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan, Coleman, Taylor59 min
May 4, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, Runnels, Tom Green47 min
May 4, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, Concho, Runnels46 min
May 4, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, McCulloch52 min
May 4, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, Runnels32 min
May 4, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, McCulloch, Mason, Menard24 min
May 4, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, McCulloch, Mason, Menard32 min
May 4, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch, San Saba62 min
May 4, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown, Coleman47 min
May 4, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, McCulloch, Mason, Menard47 min
May 4, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.