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Special Weather Statement, NWS San Angelo, TX

February 3, 2012Concho County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this special weather statement at Feb 3, 2012, 2:49 PM CST for Concho County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 3, 2012, 2:49 PM CST (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Feb 3, 2012, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX

County Concho County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 284 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 717 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 3, 12:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	59 min
Feb 3, 1:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	28 min
Feb 3, 1:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	47 min
Feb 3, 2:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	41 min
Feb 3, 4:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	63 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.