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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 8, 2014San Saba County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2014, 4:34 PM CDT for San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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 8, 2014, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County San Saba County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 917 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -233 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 393 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 8, 3:50 PM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:50 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 3:55 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 12:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 12:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 1:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 2:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 3:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 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 7, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	24 min
May 7, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	23 min
May 7, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher, Sutton	36 min
May 7, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	46 min
May 7, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green	25 min
May 7, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	32 min
May 7, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	44 min
May 7, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	49 min
May 7, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor	40 min
May 7, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	45 min
May 7, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	36 min
May 7, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Taylor	50 min
May 7, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	44 min
May 7, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	44 min
May 7, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	50 min
May 7, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	48 min
May 7, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	31 min
May 7, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	52 min
May 7, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	44 min
May 7, 9:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	24 min
May 7, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford, Taylor	63 min
May 7, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Throckmorton	35 min
May 8, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Sterling and 2 more	61 min
May 8, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Shackelford and 2 more	62 min
May 8, 4:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor, Throckmorton	52 min
May 8, 4:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	23 min
May 8, 5:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones, Taylor	23 min
May 8, 5:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones, Taylor	31 min
May 8, 6:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	24 min
May 8, 6:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Shackelford	33 min
May 8, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	67 min
May 8, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	54 min
May 8, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	53 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.