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Special Weather Statement, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this special weather statement at May 23, 2015, 2:21 PM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
- May 23, 2015, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2015, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
County Menard County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 2727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 May 23, 12:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 12:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 2:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 209 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-241915- 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- 209 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING THROUGH 10 AM SUNDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON SUNDAY...WITH A CONTINUED THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF A THROCKMORTON TO JUNCTION LINE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM MEMORIAL DAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 23, 1:58 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 158 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015 TXZ073-154-168-231930- MCCULLOCH TX-MENARD TX-CONCHO TX- 158 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR MCCULLOCH...MENARD AND CONCHO COUNTIES... POTENTIAL STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL AT 156 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MELVIN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MENARD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. POTENTIAL STORM IMPACTS INCLUDE... SOME BROKEN TREE BRANCHES... ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES LIKELY... A FEW LOOSE OBJECTS TOPPLED... HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS... THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THE INTERSECTION OF US-87 AND RANCH ROAD 2134 BY 205 PM CDT MELVIN BY 210 PM CDT SALT GAP BY 220 PM CDT PEAR VALLEY...DOOLE AND LOHN BY 230 PM CDT LAT...LON 3146 9972 3132 9928 3098 9961 3106 9980 TIME...MOT...LOC 1858Z 207DEG 28KT 3112 9965
Special weather statement, May 23, 2:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
221 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015
TXZ168-169-231945-
KIMBLE TX-MENARD TX-
221 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR KIMBLE
AND MENARD COUNTIES...
POTENTIAL STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL
AT 218 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST
OF CLEO...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF JUNCTION...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
POTENTIAL STORM IMPACTS INCLUDE...
SOME BROKEN TREE BRANCHES...
ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES LIKELY...
A FEW LOOSE OBJECTS TOPPLED...
HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS...
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
THE INTERSECTION OF US-83 AND RANCH ROAD 1773...US-83 NEAR THE
KIMBLE-MENARD COUNTY LINE AND THE INTERSECTION OF US-83 AND HIGHWAY
29 BY 245 PM CDT
LAT...LON 3066 10012 3068 10011 3104 9990 3067 9952
3053 9999
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 229DEG 26KT 3066 9997The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 1:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | McCulloch | 32 min |
| May 23, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | McCulloch | 30 min |
| May 23, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Brown | 28 min |
| May 23, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Menard | 24 min |
| May 23, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 24 min |
| May 23, 3:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Brown | 64 min |
| May 23, 3:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Kimble, Menard | 2 hr |
| May 23, 4:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Mason | 21 min |
| May 23, 5:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Mason | 89 min |
| May 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 4 hr |
| May 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Mason, Menard | 3 hr |
| May 23, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher | 25 min |
| May 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Mason | 85 min |
| May 23, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 25 min |
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Taylor | 30 min |
| May 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 37 min |
| May 23, 6:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | San Saba | 2 hr |
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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.