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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 28, 2006Brown County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2006, 12:26 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 16 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: Apr 28, 2006, 12:26 PM CDT (17:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2006, 12:42 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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
Apr 28, 11:36 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 303 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: 1582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.3

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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 Apr 28, 12:24 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 12:24 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 5:06 AM CDT, 7 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
506 AM CDT FRI APR 28 2006

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-291015-
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-
506 AM CDT FRI APR 28 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS UPPER-LEVEL
DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH A SURFACE DRYLINE SLOWLY EAST ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG OR NEAR THIS DRYLINE.
EXPECT MANY THUNDERSTORMS TO EXCEED SEVERE LIMITS TODAY AND
TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
THREATS. HOWEVER...A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EXPECT SPOTTER ACTIVATION TODAY AND TONIGHT.

23/HUBER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 11:39 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 12:14 PM CDT, 12 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
Apr 28, 11:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	26 min
Apr 28, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	30 min
Apr 28, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	26 min
Apr 28, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	45 min
Apr 28, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	37 min
Apr 28, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	24 min
Apr 28, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	17 min
Apr 28, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	35 min
Apr 28, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	31 min
Apr 28, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	31 min
Apr 28, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	28 min
Apr 28, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	45 min
Apr 28, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	34 min
Apr 28, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	26 min
Apr 28, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	36 min
Apr 28, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sutton	36 min
Apr 28, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Taylor	26 min
Apr 28, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	61 min
Apr 28, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton	34 min
Apr 28, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford	47 min
Apr 28, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	45 min
Apr 28, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	38 min
Apr 28, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard	31 min
Apr 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	32 min
Apr 28, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	25 min
Apr 28, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	17 min
Apr 28, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason, Menard	29 min
Apr 28, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	24 min
Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	33 min
Apr 28, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	43 min
Apr 28, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	56 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.