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Wind Advisory 17, NWS San Angelo, TX

December 3, 200818 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 3, 2008, 11:48 AM CST for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 3, 2008, 11:48 AM CST (17:48 UTC)
Expired
Dec 3, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 257 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2008-12-03Temperature 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2008-12-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 557 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
557 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
557 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 3, 3:31 AM CSTLake Wind AdvisorySJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 12 more8 hr

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.