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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2008, 5:53 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Mar 17, 2008, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Taylor County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
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 Mar 17, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 2:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 223 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-181930- 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- 223 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THIS AFTERNOON...A DRYLINE DEVELOPING FROM OZONA TO MERTZON TO SWEETWATER AND HASKELL...WILL BE A FOCUS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE ALONG AND EAST OF A THROCKMORTON TO BALLINGER TO SONORA LINE. FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE TONIGHT...AS STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST OVER THE PATHS OF PREVIOUS STORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT ALONG AND EAST OF A SONORA... EDEN...COLEMAN LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY AS THE UPPER SYSTEM MOVES OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 1:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 219 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXZ049-098-171930- HASKELL TX-FISHER TX- 219 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR HASKELL AND FISHER COUNTIES... AT 218 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OBRIEN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAMLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... NORTHEASTERN FISHER AND NORTHWESTERN HASKELL COUNTIES. SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY THOSE 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 700 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
Local storm report, Mar 17, 3:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
352 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0215 PM TORNADO 4 W MARYNEAL 32.24N 100.52W
03/17/2008 NOLAN TX PUBLIC
A PICTURE WAS TAKEN OF THIS TORNADO AS IT WAS REPORTED BY
THE PUBLIC WITH NO DAMAGE REPORTED.
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HGThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 3:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | SJT | Brown, Coleman, Concho, Kimble, McCulloch, Mason and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 49 min |
| Mar 17, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 40 min |
| Mar 17, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 23 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.