A strong upper level disturbance and a cold front interacted with moisture from the gulf to produce a long track isolated supercell that raced from Sterling City to San Angelo and continued southeast. The severe storm produced strong winds and a few large hail reports.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
A strong upper level disturbance and a cold front interacted with moisture from the gulf to produce a long track isolated supercell that raced from Sterling City to San Angelo and continued southeast. The severe storm produced strong winds and a few large hail reports.
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:53 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A few reports of quarter size hail were noted on Facebook at Beauregard and Pierce.
The public reported dime size hail at North Bryant and 29th Street.
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