Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2000, 4:25 AM CST for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 2, 2000, 4:25 AM CST (10:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2000, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dickens County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLUB 021027 SVRLBB TXC125-021115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 425 AM CST THU MAR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DICKENS COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 515 AM CST * AT 422 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF MCAD00...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF CROSBYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPUR. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SPUR... MCADOO...AFTON AND DICKENS. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3384 10104 3340 10104 3340 10052 3383 10053
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 1:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 2:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 3:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 4:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 34 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.