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Wind Advisory 5, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 17, 202618 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this wind advisory at Apr 17, 2026, 10:38 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2026, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2026, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 18, 2026, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 18, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 17, 6:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 6:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 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
Apr 18, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Throckmorton	44 min
Apr 18, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Nolan, Taylor	39 min
Apr 18, 2:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Shackelford, Taylor	55 min
Apr 18, 5:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Coke, Sterling	48 min
Apr 18, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling, Tom Green	48 min
Apr 18, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels	45 min
Apr 18, 5:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Callahan	42 min
Apr 18, 6:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	39 min
Apr 18, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	51 min
Apr 18, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman	22 min
Apr 18, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	42 min
Apr 18, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	50 min
Apr 18, 7:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	46 min
Apr 18, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown, Coleman	60 min
Apr 18, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	57 min
Apr 18, 8:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	46 min
Apr 18, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Tom Green	32 min
Apr 18, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Concho	30 min
Apr 18, 10:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	36 min
Apr 18, 10:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	32 min
Apr 18, 11:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton	55 min
Apr 18, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher, Sutton	56 min
Apr 18, 11:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	37 min
Apr 18, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	30 min
Apr 18, 1:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	37 min
Apr 18, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	35 min
Apr 18, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	McCulloch	28 min
Apr 18, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	47 min
Apr 18, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	35 min
Apr 18, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	24 min
Apr 18, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Mason	41 min
Apr 18, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	San Saba	29 min
Apr 18, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Llano	33 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.