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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 3, 2020Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2020, 7:16 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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, 2020, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2020, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Taylor County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 2020-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2020-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 8:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTCallahan41 min
May 3, 8:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTRunnels45 min
May 3, 9:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSJTTaylor48 min

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.