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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 16, 2006Callahan County, Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2006, 10:58 PM CDT for Callahan County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
Jun 16, 2006, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2006, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Callahan County, TX, Taylor County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 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
Jun 16, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 2006-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 252 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
725 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006

TXZ064-170100-
STERLING TX-
725 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR STERLING
COUNTY...

AT 721 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN STERLING
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BIG SPRING...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  NORTHERN STERLING COUNTY.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY
IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE
SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS SHOULD A
WARNING BE ISSUED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:58 PM CDT, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
758 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006

TXZ064-170130-
STERLING TX-
758 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR STERLING
COUNTY...

AT 756 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GLASSCOCK
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  NORTHERN STERLING COUNTY.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY
IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE
SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS SHOULD A
WARNING BE ISSUED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
Local storm report, Jun 16, 9:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling30 min
Jun 16, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan49 min
Jun 16, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Sterling40 min
Jun 16, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Jones50 min
Jun 16, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor49 min
Jun 16, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan46 min
Jun 16, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan, Jones, Shackelford48 min
Jun 16, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor32 min
Jun 16, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett48 min
Jun 16, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan29 min
Jun 17, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett35 min
Jun 17, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher53 min
Jun 17, 1:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton56 min
Jun 17, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green60 min
Jun 17, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett59 min
Jun 17, 1:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMenard, Schleicher64 min
Jun 17, 2:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Runnels, Tom Green63 min
Jun 17, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho, Tom Green50 min
Jun 17, 3:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch52 min
Jun 17, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton64 min
Jun 17, 3:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, Runnels55 min
Jun 17, 3:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba56 min
Jun 17, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown, Coleman42 min
Jun 17, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Throckmorton38 min
Jun 17, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling49 min
Jun 17, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Jones, Shackelford35 min
Jun 17, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Throckmorton47 min

Nearby

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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.