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Wind Advisory 18, NWS San Angelo, TX

December 12, 20088 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 12, 2008, 5:18 PM CST for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 13, 2008, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 12, 2008, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 13, 2008, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 13, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
In force
12 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 23:17 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, 11.3 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 2008-12-12Temperature 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 2008-12-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 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
2098 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
271 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 12, 3:09 PM CSTLake Wind AdvisorySJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Haskell and 6 more27 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Texas, 2008Every wind advisory 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.