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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 3, 2018Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2018, 6:11 AM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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: May 3, 2018, 6:11 AM CDT (11:11 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:10 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 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 May 3, 4:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 4:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 4:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 3, 1:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 2:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 2:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 4:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 5:19 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 6:03 AM CDT, 8 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 2, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	48 min
May 2, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	56 min
May 2, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	44 min
May 2, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	50 min
May 2, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones	57 min
May 2, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	51 min
May 2, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	46 min
May 2, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher, Sutton	49 min
May 2, 8:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	114 min
May 2, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford, Throckmorton	40 min
May 2, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	59 min
May 2, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Haskell	64 min
May 2, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sterling	45 min
May 2, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	41 min
May 2, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Throckmorton	67 min
May 2, 10:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	36 min
May 2, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton	47 min
May 2, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	45 min
May 3, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton	64 min
May 3, 12:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	42 min
May 3, 12:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	52 min
May 3, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Jones	59 min
May 3, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	57 min
May 3, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Shackelford, Taylor	53 min
May 3, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	65 min
May 3, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	63 min
May 3, 1:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Taylor	56 min
May 3, 2:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Shackelford	45 min
May 3, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Shackelford	44 min
May 3, 4:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	39 min
May 3, 5:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	41 min
May 3, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	23 min
May 3, 5:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	29 min
May 3, 6:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher, Tom Green	57 min
May 3, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Runnels	47 min
May 3, 6:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	48 min
May 3, 6:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Shackelford	47 min
May 3, 7:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher, Sutton	43 min
May 3, 7:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coleman	42 min
May 3, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Concho	41 min
May 3, 7:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard, Sutton	38 min
May 3, 8:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown, Coleman	42 min
May 3, 8:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch	43 min
May 3, 8:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	51 min
May 3, 8:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	59 min
May 3, 8:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Brown	115 min
May 3, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch, San Saba	50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.