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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 24, 2014Coke County, Nolan County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2014, 2:40 PM CDT for Coke County, Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 24, 2014, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Coke County, TX, Nolan County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 May 24, 2:06 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:06 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 5:36 AM CDT, 9 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
536 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-251045-
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-
536 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY STRENGTHEN TO SEVERE
LEVELS...MAINLY WEST OF A SWEETWATER TO SONORA LINE. THE MAIN
HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION TO THE
SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING
WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. A
FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN
CONCERNS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 12:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1257 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014

TXZ049-054-241845-
FISHER TX-NOLAN TX-
1257 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR FISHER
AND NOLAN COUNTIES...

AT 1256 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 19
MILES NORTHWEST OF HOBBS TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARYNEAL...OR ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF SNYDER TO 19 MILES NORTHWEST
OF ROBERT LEE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  CHAMPION...US-84 NEAR THE NOLAN-FISHER COUNTY LINE AND I-20 NEAR
  THE NOLAN-MITCHELL COUNTY LINE BY 115 PM CDT
  WASTELLA BY 120 PM CDT
  THE INTERSECTION OF RANCH ROAD 608 AND HIGHWAY 147...ROSCOE AND
  HOBBS BY 135 PM CDT
  MARYNEAL BY 140 PM CDT
  GANNON AND CAPITOLA BY 145 PM CDT

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS...
ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER
ACTIONS SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.

LAT...LON 3297 10019 3209 10019 3208 10067 3297 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 1757Z 265DEG 18KT 3292 10086 3211 10069

Special weather statement, May 24, 1:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
126 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014

TXZ065-241915-
COKE TX-
126 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR COKE
COUNTY...

AT 124 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3
MILES NORTHWEST OF SILVER TO 9 MILES WEST OF E.V. SPENCE RESERVOIR
NEAR PAINT CREEK RECREATION AREA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20
MILES NORTHWEST OF ROBERT LEE TO 14 MILES WEST OF ROBERT LEE...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

* STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 158 AND RANCH ROAD 2059 BY 135 PM CDT
  E.V. SPENCE RESERVOIR NEAR PAINT CREEK RECREATION AREA BY 150 PM
  CDT
  SANCO BY 200 PM CDT
  ROBERT LEE BY 210 PM CDT

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS...
ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER
ACTIONS SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.

LAT...LON 3208 10031 3186 10038 3185 10081 3207 10083
      3208 10082
TIME...MOT...LOC 1826Z 278DEG 17KT 3211 10071 3193 10071

Local storm report, May 24, 2:31 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 2:32 PM CDT, 8 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 23, 7:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Irion, Runnels, Tom Green	2 hr
May 23, 8:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Runnels	93 min
May 23, 8:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Tom Green	3 hr
May 23, 9:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	2 hr
May 23, 9:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coleman	2 hr
May 23, 10:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Brown	2 hr
May 24, 12:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	48 min
May 24, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan, Taylor	46 min
May 24, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke	49 min
May 24, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	44 min
May 24, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	37 min
May 24, 2:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	117 min
May 24, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	30 min
May 24, 2:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more	60 hr
May 24, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones, Taylor	63 min
May 24, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Haskell, Jones	44 min
May 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke, Nolan	44 min
May 24, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	48 min
May 24, 3:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coke, Runnels	2 hr
May 24, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Upton	29 min
May 24, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	46 min
May 24, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	27 min
May 24, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones	62 min
May 24, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Upton	46 min
May 24, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	50 min
May 24, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke	32 min
May 24, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	23 min
May 24, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	37 min
May 24, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	27 min
May 24, 5:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	2 hr
May 24, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	30 min
May 24, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	38 min
May 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	36 min
May 24, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	46 min
May 24, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	41 min
May 24, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	35 min
May 24, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	34 min
May 24, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion	36 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.