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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 18, 2013Nolan County, Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2013, 1:28 AM CDT for Nolan County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
Apr 18, 2013, 1:28 AM CDT (06:28 UTC)
Expired
Apr 18, 2013, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Nolan County, TX, Taylor County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 17, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 274 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 00:00Z on 2013-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 790 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 00:00Z on 2013-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
790 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
15.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 7:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTHaskell45 min
Apr 18, 12:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTFisher27 min
Apr 18, 12:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTSterling26 min
Apr 18, 12:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTNolan32 min
Apr 18, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Haskell, Jones41 min
Apr 18, 1:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTNolan30 min
Apr 18, 1:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTHaskell, Jones, Throckmorton25 min
Apr 18, 1:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTIrion29 min
Apr 18, 1:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTShackelford, Throckmorton42 min
Apr 18, 2:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTCallahan, Taylor43 min
Apr 18, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Tom Green51 min
Apr 18, 2:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTCrockett58 min
Apr 18, 2:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTCallahan, Coleman44 min
Apr 18, 2:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTConcho41 min
Apr 18, 3:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTSchleicher, Sutton38 min
Apr 18, 3:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTBrown, Coleman42 min
Apr 18, 4:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTBrown60 min
Apr 18, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown42 min
Apr 18, 4:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTMcCulloch67 min
Apr 18, 1:31 PM CDTFrost AdvisorySJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more19 hr

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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.