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Special Weather Statement, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 23, 2015Jones County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 23, 2015, 10:23 PM CDT for Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
Oct 23, 2015, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired
Oct 23, 2015, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX

County Jones County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2015-10-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2015-10-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -70 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

202 
WWUS84 KSJT 240323
SPSSJT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1023 PM CDT FRI OCT 23 2015
 
TXZ049-054-113-127-240415-
JONES TX-FISHER TX-NOLAN TX-TAYLOR TX-
1023 PM CDT FRI OCT 23 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN JONES...SOUTHEASTERN
FISHER...NORTHEASTERN NOLAN AND NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTIES UNTIL 1115
PM CDT...

AT 1023 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR TRENT...OR 15 MILES EAST OF SWEETWATER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MERKEL AROUND 1030 PM CDT.
  NOODLE AROUND 1035 PM CDT.
  TYE AROUND 1040 PM CDT.
  HAWLEY AROUND 1050 PM CDT.
  ABILENE AROUND 1055 PM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE IMPACT...HODGES...
TRUBY AND STITH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3247 9963 3232 10017 3247 10027 3274 9984
TIME...MOT...LOC 0323Z 239DEG 49KT 3244 10014 

$$

JW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningSJTConcho, Menard85 min
Oct 23, 8:59 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTCrockett3 hr
Oct 23, 10:58 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTSutton3 hr
Oct 23, 11:09 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTMcCulloch, Mason, San Saba3 hr
Oct 24, 12:30 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTKimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton3 hr
Oct 24, 9:27 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTMenard3 hr

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.