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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS San Angelo, TX

July 20, 2009McCulloch County, Menard County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2009, 1:29 PM CDT for McCulloch County, Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 2009, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2009, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 294 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 2009-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2307 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2009-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
14.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 10:48 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTBrown102 min
Jul 20, 1:00 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTConcho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green2 hr
Jul 20, 1:09 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTBrown, Coleman3 hr
Jul 20, 1:14 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTMcCulloch3 hr
Jul 20, 2:43 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTKimble, Mason, Menard, Sutton107 min

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.