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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 9, 2013Kimble County, Menard County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2013, 7:47 PM CST for Kimble County, Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2013, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kimble County, TX, Menard County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 Mar 9, 5:08 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 5:08 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
508 PM CST SAT MAR 9 2013

.AVIATION...
/00AZ UPDATE/

AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM HAS PUSHED A COLD FRONT EAST THROUGH MOST
OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING WITH VFR CONDITIONS OVER THE
WESTERN TERMINALS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD. THE
WESTERN TAF SITES WILL HAVE POSTFRONTAL WINDS FROM THE NORTHWEST
GUSTING TO AROUND 30 KTS BY SUNRISE TOMORROW. FOR KJCT AND
KBBD...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH THROUGH THE TERMINALS
WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 00Z-04Z THIS EVENING.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ABILENE 	 42  56  27  60  35 /  20   5   5   0   0
SAN ANGELO 	 41  57  28  66  33 /  20   5   5   0   0
JUNCTION 	 47  63  25  66  30 /  80   5   5   0   0

&&

.SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: COKE...FISHER...HASKELL...JONES...NOLAN...STERLING.

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 3:34 PM CST, 4 hours 13 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.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 9, 7:17 PM CST, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 7:24 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
724 PM CST SAT MAR 09 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0719 PM     HAIL             5 W BRADY               31.13N  99.42W
03/09/2013  E1.00 INCH       MCCULLOCH          TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

EVENT NUMBER SJT1300096

PM

Local storm report, Mar 9, 7:41 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
741 PM CST SAT MAR 09 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0741 PM     HAIL             BRADY                   31.14N  99.33W
03/09/2013  E0.75 INCH       MCCULLOCH          TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

EVENT NUMBER SJT1300097

PM

Local storm report, Mar 9, 7:44 PM CST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
744 PM CST SAT MAR 09 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0730 PM     HAIL             3 S LONDON              30.63N  99.58W
03/09/2013  E1.00 INCH       KIMBLE             TX   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER SJT1300098

PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 6:03 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Brown, McCulloch, San Saba	117 min
Mar 9, 6:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	34 min
Mar 9, 6:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, McCulloch, San Saba	40 min
Mar 9, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Menard	32 min
Mar 9, 6:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard	32 min
Mar 9, 6:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	28 min
Mar 9, 6:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, McCulloch, Mason, Menard	38 min
Mar 9, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard, Sutton	49 min
Mar 9, 7:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Kimble	25 min
Mar 9, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Menard	37 min
Mar 9, 7:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	29 min
Mar 9, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	10 min
Mar 9, 7:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	49 min
Mar 9, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	25 min
Mar 9, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	25 min
Mar 9, 8:06 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Kimble, McCulloch, Mason, Menard, San Saba, Sutton	114 min
Mar 9, 8:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, San Saba	51 min
Mar 9, 8:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	36 min
Mar 9, 8:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	29 min
Mar 9, 8:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason	24 min
Mar 9, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	32 min
Mar 9, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason	30 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.