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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2008, 8:56 PM CDT for San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 14, 2008, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County San Saba County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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 14, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 14, 7:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 7:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 213 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-151915- 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- 213 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS EVENING. AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS...THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED TORNADOES. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 14, 7:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
712 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0705 PM HAIL 4 ESE ALGERITA 31.21N 98.79W
05/14/2008 E0.75 INCH SAN SABA TX TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
24Local storm report, May 14, 7:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | San Saba | 44 min |
| May 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 32 min |
| May 14, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Menard | 42 min |
| May 14, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 23 min |
| May 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard, Sutton | 55 min |
| May 14, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 43 min |
| May 14, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 24 min |
| May 14, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 37 min |
| May 14, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 60 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.