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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2020, 9:28 PM CDT for McCulloch County, San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2020, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties McCulloch County, TX, San Saba County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1748 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 58 min |
| May 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Sterling | 38 min |
| May 15, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 65 min |
| May 15, 7:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Sterling | 3 hr |
| May 15, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 44 min |
| May 15, 7:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Throckmorton | 44 min |
| May 15, 7:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
| May 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Kimble, Menard | 45 min |
| May 15, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 56 min |
| May 15, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 65 min |
| May 15, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason, Sutton | 43 min |
| May 15, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 32 min |
| May 15, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 62 min |
| May 15, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 25 min |
| May 15, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Mason | 43 min |
| May 15, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Callahan | 48 min |
| May 15, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | Brown | 47 min |
| May 15, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 48 min |
| May 15, 10:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SJT | San Saba | 47 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.