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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this winter storm warning at Feb 15, 2008, 2:59 PM CST for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 15, 2008, 4:00 PM CST. It was in force for 20 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2008, 2:59 PM CST (20:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 15, 2008, 4:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
Counties Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 15, 11:14 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 11:14 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 2:03 PM CST, 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 203 PM CST FRI FEB 15 2008 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-162015- 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- 203 PM CST FRI FEB 15 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR FREEZING FOR NORTHERN AREAS TONIGHT... THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN FOR AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. ACCUMULATIONS... IF THEY TAKE PLACE... ARE EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT AND CONFINED TO EXPOSED SURFACES SUCH AS TREES... POWER LINES... BRIDGES... AND OVERPASSES. HOWEVER...EVEN LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS CAN CAUSE VERY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE WINTRY WEATHER... THERE IS ALSO THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY STRENGTHEN TO SEVERE LEVELS. THE MAIN HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY... AND APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH THE MAIN HAZARDS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 2:49 PM CST, 10 minutes before
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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.