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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 26, 2015Fisher County, Jones County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2015, 1:21 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: Apr 26, 2015, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2015, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fisher County, TX, Jones County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 26, 1:06 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2355 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 26, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 4:44 AM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 1:04 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
104 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2015

TXZ049-054-113-127-261830-
FISHER TX-JONES TX-NOLAN TX-TAYLOR TX-
104 PM CDT SUN APR 26 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR
FISHER...JONES...NOLAN AND TAYLOR COUNTIES...

POTENTIAL STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
  GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL

AT 102 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF
SYLVESTER...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SWEETWATER...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

POTENTIAL STORM IMPACTS INCLUDE...
  SOME BROKEN TREE BRANCHES AND A FEW WEAK TREES TOPPLED...
  SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES LIKELY...
  LIGHT LOOSE OBJECTS TOPPLED...
  DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS...
  MINOR SHINGLE DAMAGE...
  ISOLATED SMALL DENTS TO VEHICLES...

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SYLVESTER AND NOODLE BY 110 PM CDT
  MCCAULLEY BY 120 PM CDT
  THE INTERSECTION OF US-180 AND RANCH ROAD 126 AND NEINDA BY 125 PM
  CDT
  HAMLIN BY 130 PM CDT

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 248 AND 261.

LAT...LON 3291 9972 3243 10009 3251 10041 3297 10023
TIME...MOT...LOC 1804Z 215DEG 30KT 3263 10021

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones	26 min
Apr 26, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	26 min
Apr 26, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Haskell	24 min
Apr 26, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	49 min
Apr 26, 1:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	25 min
Apr 26, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	48 min
Apr 26, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	66 min
Apr 26, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	28 min
Apr 26, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman	43 min
Apr 26, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	23 min
Apr 26, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	47 min
Apr 26, 2:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SJT	Brown, Coleman	26 min
Apr 26, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown	23 min
Apr 26, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	51 min
Apr 26, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton	49 min
Apr 26, 3:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SJT	Brown	24 min
Apr 26, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	41 min
Apr 26, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	53 min
Apr 26, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	46 min
Apr 26, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	3 hr
Apr 26, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	48 min
Apr 26, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones	38 min
Apr 26, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford	58 min
Apr 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	53 min
Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	37 min
Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan	36 min
Apr 26, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Taylor	33 min
Apr 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	67 min
Apr 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Taylor	32 min
Apr 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	41 min
Apr 26, 5:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	3 hr
Apr 26, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	31 min
Apr 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	57 min
Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	41 min
Apr 26, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	28 min
Apr 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones	55 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.