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Special Weather Statement, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 28, 2016Runnels County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2016, 4:52 PM CDT for Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 28, 2016, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX

County Runnels County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 28, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
245 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-291100-
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-
245 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THE GREATEST THREAT
WILL BE FOUND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE
POSSIBLE AS WELL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS SUNDAY
THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE
PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL DAMAGING WINDS. IN
ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

JOHNSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 4:52 PM CDT, 0 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
May 28, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	57 min
May 28, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	23 min
May 28, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard	52 min
May 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	46 min
May 28, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	53 min
May 28, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	47 min
May 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	47 min
May 28, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard	45 min
May 28, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	51 min
May 28, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	17 min
May 28, 6:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Kimble	3 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.