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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 14, 2018Brown County, Callahan County, Coleman County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 2018, 5:10 PM CDT for Brown County, Callahan County, Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
Oct 14, 2018, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 2018, 5:40 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 276 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 12:00Z on 2018-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 117 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2018-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 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 Oct 13, 6:51 PM CDT, 22 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 6:51 PM CDT, 22 hours 19 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 12:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTThrockmorton39 min
Oct 14, 2:32 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningSJTShackelford, Throckmorton25 hr
Oct 14, 3:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchSJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more5 days
Oct 14, 3:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTRunnels53 min
Oct 14, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels43 min
Oct 14, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan, Coleman, Runnels50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2018Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.