Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 12:23 AM CST for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2000, 12:23 AM CST (06:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Parker County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KFWD 260624 SVRFTW TXC367-260730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1223 AM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PARKER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 130 AM CST * AT 1223 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEATHERFORD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WILLOW PARK...WEATHERFORD... SPRINGTOWN AND ALEDO HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. STREETS MAY ALSO BE>COME FLOODED. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 3295 9805 3273 9802 3267 9758 3298 9760
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 25, 8:35 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:35 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 835 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST ACROSS CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. CONVECTION IS ENHANCED BY OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION. EXPECT ADDITIONAL TRAINING OF STORMS THROUGH 06Z...AS SHORT WAVE ACROSS WEST TEXAS APPROACHES. .FTW...NONE. 83
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 25, 7:40 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
740 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM GORDON TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 PALO_PINTO REPORTED BY SPOTTER
0647 PM GRANBURY TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 HOOD REPORTED BY HAM SPOTTER
0737 PM 3 SE BURLESON TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 JOHNSON REPORTED BY HAM SPOTTER
0740 PM CLEBURNE TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 JOHNSON REPORTEDe BY HAM SPOTTER
0743 PM CLEBURNE TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 JOHNSON REPORTED BY HAM SPOTTERSpecial weather statement, Mar 25, 8:02 PM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-260800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 802 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...ALTHOUGH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. A STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS NORTH TEXAS IS EXPECTED TO FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ACROSS WEST TEXAS WILL MOVE EAST OVERNIGHT...AND WILL FURTHER ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. VERTICAL WIND...TEMPERATURE...AND MOISTURE PROFILES SUGGEST THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...ESPECIALLY ACROSS AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. 83
Local storm report, Mar 25, 9:10 PM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
910 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0840 PM TOLAR TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
03/25/00 HOOD SPOTTER REPORTED
HIGH WINDS
0855 PM GLEN ROSE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/00 SOMERVELL REPORTED BY SPOTTER
0857 PM 3 N GLEN ROSE TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
03/25/00 SOMERVELL HAM SPOTTER REPORTED
NICKEL HAIL COV ERING
THE GROUNDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 58 min |
| Mar 25, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 55 min |
| Mar 25, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 53 min |
| Mar 25, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 48 min |
| Mar 25, 8:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 65 min |
| Mar 25, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 61 min |
| Mar 25, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 55 min |
| Mar 25, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 64 min |
| Mar 25, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 62 min |
| Mar 25, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 66 min |
| Mar 25, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 10:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 11:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 2:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Navarro | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 3:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 47 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.