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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 6, 2006Mason County, San Saba County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2006, 4:45 PM CDT for Mason County, San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 6, 2006, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2006, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mason County, TX, San Saba County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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 6, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 2431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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 6, 3:59 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:59 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 2:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 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 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell	41 min
May 5, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	53 min
May 5, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	48 min
May 5, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	47 min
May 5, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	48 min
May 5, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	32 min
May 5, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton	46 min
May 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	60 min
May 5, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	66 min
May 5, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	47 min
May 5, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	46 min
May 5, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	38 min
May 5, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	50 min
May 5, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	62 min
May 5, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	41 min
May 5, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan	54 min
May 5, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	49 min
May 5, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	32 min
May 5, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	42 min
May 5, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	26 min
May 5, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	35 min
May 5, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	32 min
May 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman	52 min
May 5, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown	52 min
May 5, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	30 min
May 5, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Nolan, Shackelford, Taylor	27 min
May 5, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	30 min
May 5, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	59 min
May 5, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	51 min
May 5, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Shackelford, Taylor	59 min
May 5, 10:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Brown	4 hr
May 5, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	63 min
May 5, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	51 min
May 5, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Runnels, San Saba	54 min
May 6, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, McCulloch	61 min
May 6, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	26 min
May 6, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	50 min
May 6, 2:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	McCulloch, San Saba	116 min
May 6, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason, Menard	53 min
May 6, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Menard	42 min
May 6, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason, Menard	30 min
May 6, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard	42 min
May 6, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	47 min
May 6, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	27 min
May 6, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason, San Saba	31 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.