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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2015, 6:06 PM CDT for Fisher County, Jones 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2015, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fisher County, TX, Jones County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 267 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
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 7, 3:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 336 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-082045- 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- 336 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST NORTH OF A STERLING CITY TO SAN ANGELO TO BRADY LINE. SEVERE WEATHER THREATS INCLUDE HAIL LARGER THAN GOLF BALLS...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY. SEVERE WEATHER THREATS INCLUDE DAMAGING WINDS...VERY LARGE HAIL...TORNADOES AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. 24
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Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Haskell | 95 min |
| May 6, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 46 min |
| May 6, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 50 min |
| May 6, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 43 min |
| May 6, 8:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 114 min |
| May 6, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 52 min |
| May 6, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 64 min |
| May 6, 9:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 3 hr |
| May 6, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 44 min |
| May 6, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 66 min |
| May 6, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Irion | 40 min |
| May 6, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 52 min |
| May 6, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 36 min |
| May 6, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 32 min |
| May 7, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 65 min |
| May 7, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 34 min |
| May 7, 2:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 32 min |
| May 7, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 23 min |
| May 7, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Haskell | 25 min |
| May 7, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Haskell | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Haskell | 47 min |
| May 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 52 min |
| May 7, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 48 min |
| May 7, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford | 41 min |
| May 7, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 43 min |
| May 7, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 40 min |
| May 7, 6:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Taylor | 21 min |
| May 7, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor | 46 min |
| May 7, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 32 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.