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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT for Jones County, Taylor 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
- Mar 17, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jones County, TX, Taylor County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 2:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 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, 2:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
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 49 minutes 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.
&&
HGSpecial weather statement, Mar 17, 6:28 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 628 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXZ098-180030- HASKELL TX- 628 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR HASKELL COUNTY... AT 626 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RULE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF HASKELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HASKELL BY 635 PM CDT ROCHESTER BY 645 PM CDT OBRIEN BY 650 PM CDT WEINERT BY 655 PM CDT PEA SIZE 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 6:30 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 630 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXZ076>078-180015- SCHLEICHER TX-CROCKETT TX-SUTTON TX- 630 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR SCHLEICHER...CROCKETT AND SUTTON COUNTIES... AT 629 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELDORADO...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF SONORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THE INTERSECTION OF US-190 AND RANCH ROAD 1828 BY 640 PM CDT ELDORADO BY 650 PM CDT THE INTERSECTION OF RANCH ROAD 1828 AND RANCH ROAD 915 BY 655 PM CDT PEA SIZE 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 6:35 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 635 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXZ113-127-180015- JONES TX-TAYLOR TX- 635 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR JONES AND TAYLOR COUNTIES... AT 630 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER TUSCOLA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF ABILENE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BUFFALO GAP BY 640 PM CDT VIEW BY 655 PM CDT POTOSI BY 700 PM CDT DYESS AFB BY 710 PM CDT ABILENE...IMPACT AND TYE BY 715 PM CDT PEA SIZE 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, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
640 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0606 PM HAIL GOLDSBORO 32.06N 99.68W
03/17/2008 M0.88 INCH COLEMAN TX AMATEUR RADIO
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HGUERRERThe 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, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 52 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
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.