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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS San Angelo, TX

February 15, 200810 counties in Texas

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.

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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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2008-02-15Temperature 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 2008-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 413 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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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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.