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Wind Advisory 11, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 15, 20088 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 15, 2008, 10:07 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 2008, 10:07 AM CDT (15:07 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 2008, 2:21 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Callahan County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2008-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2008-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 199 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.