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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 9, 20144 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2014, 4:28 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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: May 9, 2014, 4:28 AM CDT (09:28 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2014, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 308 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 6:55 PM CDT, 9 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 6:55 PM CDT, 9 hours 33 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, 2:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble, Sutton	61 min
May 9, 3:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	38 min
May 9, 4:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	111 min
May 9, 5:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	60 min
May 9, 8:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	52 min
May 9, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble, Sutton	64 min
May 9, 10:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble	39 min
May 9, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	36 min
May 9, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	64 min
May 9, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton	46 min
May 9, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown, Coleman	67 min

Nearby

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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.