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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2013, 4:37 PM CST for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
- Mar 9, 2013, 4:37 PM CST (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2013, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Brown County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 599 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 9, 4:22 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 4:22 PM CST, 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 3:34 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 334 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-102145- 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- 334 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...MAINLY EAST OF LINE FROM ALBANY...TO BALLINGER...TO SONORA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WESTERN BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHWEST CONCHO VALLEY DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS...DRY AIR AND ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT WEST OF A HASKELL TO ROBERT LEE LINE UNTIL 6 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON SUNDAY DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY NORTH WINDS AND DRY AIR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY FOR PORTIONS OF THE HEARTLAND ...NORTH EDWARDS PLATEAU AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 24
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 1:15 PM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
115 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013
TXZ099-091945-
THROCKMORTON TX-
115 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR
THROCKMORTON COUNTY...
POTENTIAL STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
HEAVY RAINFALL
GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL
AT 111 PM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHEAST
OF THE INTERSECTION OF US-183 AND US-283...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF
THROCKMORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
NUMEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE OCCURRING! VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL IS OCCURRING AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED IF
THIS HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES.
POTENTIAL STORM IMPACTS INCLUDE...
FIRE IGNITED BY LIGHTNING...
LOCALIZED SHORT DURATION POWER OUTAGES...
DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS...
POTENTIAL VEHICLE HYDROPLANING...
ACCUMULATION OF WATER AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS...
MINOR INJURY POSSIBLE...
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE
KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
US-380 NEAR THE THROCKMORTON-YOUNG COUNTY LINE BY 130 PM CST
ELBERT BY 135 PM CST
THIS INCLUDES THE LOW WATER CROSSINGS...
CROSSINGS ALONG COUNTY ROAD 376...
CROSSINGS ALONG COUNTY ROAD 374...
AND OTHER LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE PORTIONS OF THROCKMORTON COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3338 9894 3307 9895 3296 9915 3296 9920
3306 9935 3341 9918 3340 9898
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 221DEG 29KT 3311 9913
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
HAIL...NICKEL SIZE
WIND...45+ MPHSpecial weather statement, Mar 9, 4:04 PM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
404 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013
TXZ140-092230-
BROWN TX-
404 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR BROWN
COUNTY...
POTENTIAL STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL
AT 401 PM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF LAKE BROWNWOOD...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROWNWOOD...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
NUMEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE OCCURRING!
POTENTIAL STORM IMPACTS INCLUDE...
FIRE IGNITED BY LIGHTNING...
LOCALIZED SHORT DURATION POWER OUTAGES...
POSSIBLE INJURY OR DEATH TO PEOPLE REMAINING OUTDOORS...
SOME BROKEN TREE BRANCHES AND A FEW WEAK TREES TOPPLED...
SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES LIKELY...
LIGHT LOOSE OBJECTS TOPPLED...
DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND POSSIBLE BLOWING DUST...
MINOR SHINGLE DAMAGE...
ISOLATED SMALL VEHICLE DENTS...
MINOR INJURY POSSIBLE...
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE
KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
OWENS AND LAKE BROWNWOOD NEAR BYRDS STORE BY 410 PM CST
MAY BY 420 PM CST
LAT...LON 3168 9904 3180 9919 3206 9910 3208 9893
3178 9871 3177 9872
TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 224DEG 37KT 3181 9902
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
HAIL...NICKEL SIZE
WIND...45+ MPHThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 3:47 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | SJT | Coke, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Sterling | 14 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 4:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Brown | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 5:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Concho | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, McCulloch, San Saba | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 5:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard | 33 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.