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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2008, 6:07 PM CDT for Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 13, 2008, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Mason County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 13, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 3:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 358 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2008 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-142100- 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- 358 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS...WITH PERHAPS AN ISOLATED TORNADO ALSO POSSIBLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF AN ABILENE TO SAN ANGELO TO OZONA LINE. AS THE DRYLINE STARTS TO RETREAT BACK TO THE WEST THIS EVENING...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BOTH ALONG THE DRYLINE AND ALONG THE COLD FRONT ITSELF. ONE THE STORMS DEVELOP...THEY MAY CONTINUE WELL INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE COLD FRONT IS NOT EXPECTED TO MAKE MUCH PROGRESS INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. THE DRYLINE WILL SURGE EAST AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY...SETTING THE STAGE FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT ON WEDNESDAY ALONG BOTH THE DRYLINE AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY. AGAIN...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL AGAIN BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT...AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 13, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 454 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2008 TXZ072-077-132230- TOM GREEN TX-SCHLEICHER TX- 454 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR TOM GREEN AND SCHLEICHER COUNTIES... AT 448 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF ELDORADO TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHRISTOVAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher, Tom Green | 24 min |
| May 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason, Menard | 42 min |
| May 13, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Menard | 24 min |
| May 13, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 26 min |
| May 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch, Menard | 35 min |
| May 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 31 min |
| May 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 45 min |
| May 13, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 54 min |
| May 13, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 37 min |
| May 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.