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Special Weather Statement, NWS San Angelo, TX

August 11, 2014Mason County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2014, 1:21 PM CDT for Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 2014, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2014, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX

County Mason County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 299 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: 108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -241 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 11, 12:43 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 12:43 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 5:12 AM CDT, 8 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 11, 12:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 12:38 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 12:44 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 12:59 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:08 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:21 PM CDT, 0 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
Aug 10, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	44 min
Aug 11, 11:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	33 min
Aug 11, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	33 min
Aug 11, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	44 min
Aug 11, 12:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	41 min
Aug 11, 12:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Irion, Schleicher	87 min
Aug 11, 12:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	52 min
Aug 11, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	31 min
Aug 11, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	46 min
Aug 11, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	22 min
Aug 11, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	47 min
Aug 11, 1:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	34 min
Aug 11, 1:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Menard	88 min
Aug 11, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	32 min
Aug 11, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	47 min
Aug 11, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	45 min
Aug 11, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble	39 min
Aug 11, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch	51 min
Aug 11, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke	30 min
Aug 11, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch	27 min
Aug 11, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke	24 min
Aug 11, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch, San Saba	27 min
Aug 11, 4:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	2 hr
Aug 11, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	28 min
Aug 11, 5:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	San Saba	114 min
Aug 11, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	29 min
Aug 11, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	32 min
Aug 11, 5:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	San Saba	2 hr
Aug 11, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	27 min
Aug 11, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	37 min
Aug 11, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	24 min
Aug 11, 6:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Runnels	2 hr
Aug 11, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	27 min
Aug 11, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	22 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.