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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 10, 20144 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2014, 7:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 30 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: Oct 10, 2014, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Taylor County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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
Oct 10, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 318 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: 1507 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Oct 10, 6:40 PM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 6:40 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 3:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
349 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-112100-
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-
349 PM CDT FRI OCT 10 2014

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS
AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY MORNING. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG
TO SEVERE...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A MERTZON...TO SAN
ANGELO...TO BROWNWOOD LINE. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE
HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING WINDS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...BUT
SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. HOWEVER...GUSTY WINDS...LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA SUNDAY
NIGHT INTO MONDAY. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY
WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

DANIELS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 10, 6:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 6:32 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 6:32 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 6:33 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 6:37 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 6:58 PM CDT, 32 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
Oct 10, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	26 min
Oct 10, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	26 min
Oct 10, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	32 min
Oct 10, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Haskell	29 min
Oct 10, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Taylor	28 min
Oct 10, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	34 min
Oct 10, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	32 min
Oct 10, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman	31 min
Oct 10, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	47 min
Oct 10, 9:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Taylor	28 min
Oct 10, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	32 min
Oct 10, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	30 min
Oct 10, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	25 min
Oct 10, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	36 min
Oct 10, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	37 min
Oct 10, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	25 min
Oct 10, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	29 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.