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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 2015, 5:17 PM CDT for Irion County, Schleicher County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
- Oct 23, 2015, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2015, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Irion County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 366 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Oct 23, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 23, 1:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 122 PM CDT FRI OCT 23 2015 TXZ064-065-231900- STERLING-COKE- 122 PM CDT FRI OCT 23 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN STERLING AND NORTHWESTERN COKE COUNTIES... AT 121 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES EAST OF LEES...OR 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN STERLING AND NORTHWESTERN COKE COUNTIES. LAT...LON 3208 10082 3200 10082 3181 10126 3209 10126 TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 236DEG 31KT 3202 10132
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Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 7:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 27 hr |
| Oct 22, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Coleman | 26 min |
| Oct 22, 7:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Callahan, Coleman | 58 min |
| Oct 23, 12:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 43 min |
| Oct 23, 12:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher | 45 min |
| Oct 23, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Haskell, Jones | 44 min |
| Oct 23, 1:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 53 min |
| Oct 23, 5:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Shackelford, Taylor | 64 min |
| Oct 23, 8:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SJT | Coke | 26 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Sterling | 38 min |
| Oct 23, 2:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan, Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan, Taylor | 46 min |
| Oct 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Taylor | 50 min |
| Oct 23, 3:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Taylor | 58 min |
| Oct 23, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Irion | 45 min |
| Oct 23, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion, Schleicher | 44 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.