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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2008, 2:04 AM CDT for Menard County, Schleicher County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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 4, 2008, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2008, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Menard County, TX, Schleicher County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 3, 6:31 PM CDT, 7 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:31 PM CDT, 7 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 44 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.