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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 9, 2013Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2013, 10:43 PM CDT for Kimble County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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: May 9, 2013, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2013, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kimble County, TX, Sutton County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 1373 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 May 9, 9:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 9:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 2:09 PM CDT, 8 hours 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
209 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2013

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-101915-
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-
209 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. A FEW
STORMS MAY BE SEVERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF AN OZONA...SAN ANGELO TO
BROWNWOOD LINE. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

04

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 9:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 9:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 9:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 9:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 10:27 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 10:33 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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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
May 9, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason, Menard	61 min
May 9, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Sutton	64 min
May 9, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	66 min
May 9, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason	44 min
May 9, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	65 min
May 9, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	55 min
May 9, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	63 min
May 9, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble, Sutton	57 min
May 10, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	53 min
May 10, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton	64 min
May 10, 3:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher, Sutton	66 min
May 10, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	30 min
May 10, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke	26 min
May 10, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Sterling	35 min
May 10, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	36 min
May 10, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	40 min
May 10, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	48 min
May 10, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels	29 min
May 10, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, Runnels	26 min
May 10, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Shackelford	23 min
May 10, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Runnels	22 min
May 10, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Runnels	48 min
May 10, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch	26 min
May 10, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	38 min
May 10, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	23 min
May 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	42 min
May 10, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch	35 min
May 10, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	34 min

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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.