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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2020, 6:15 PM CDT for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 15, 2020, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2020, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sterling County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2781 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 6:25 PM CDT, 23 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:25 PM CDT, 23 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Crockett | 48 min |
| May 15, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Sterling | 37 min |
| May 15, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 56 min |
| May 15, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green | 56 min |
| May 15, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher, Sutton | 65 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.