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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS San Angelo, TX

December 26, 2015Jones County, Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 26, 2015, 7:15 PM CST for Jones County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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: Dec 26, 2015, 7:15 PM CST (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Dec 26, 2015, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Jones County, TX, Taylor County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 1659 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.6
Supercell composite: 13.7

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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 Dec 26, 3:46 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 3:46 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 26, 2:52 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 26, 1:23 PM CST, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 26, 2:02 PM CST, 5 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 26, 2:32 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 26, 2:55 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 26, 3:28 PM CST, 3 hours 47 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
Dec 26, 7:20 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Concho, Kimble, McCulloch and 6 more	35 hr
Dec 26, 7:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown, Coleman	35 min
Dec 26, 7:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones	27 min
Dec 26, 8:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan, Coleman	27 min
Dec 26, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman	20 min
Dec 26, 9:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	29 min
Dec 26, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	37 min
Dec 26, 9:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	25 min
Dec 26, 9:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	31 min
Dec 26, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green	45 min
Dec 26, 9:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	50 min
Dec 26, 10:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	43 min
Dec 26, 10:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	44 min
Dec 26, 10:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	24 min
Dec 26, 11:11 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	34 min
Dec 26, 11:16 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	29 min
Dec 26, 11:35 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	25 min
Dec 26, 11:39 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Taylor	36 min
Dec 26, 11:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	48 min
Dec 27, 12:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones, Taylor	47 min
Dec 27, 12:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	48 min
Dec 27, 12:40 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	50 min
Dec 27, 12:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	45 min
Dec 27, 1:08 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Throckmorton	52 min
Dec 27, 1:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	50 min
Dec 27, 1:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble, Menard	43 min
Dec 27, 1:21 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones, Taylor	39 min
Dec 27, 1:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	23 min
Dec 27, 1:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Concho	62 min
Dec 27, 2:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	61 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.