Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 5:18 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2000, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:37 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Seagraves, TX | Small cluster of storms crossed into Texas from Eastern New Mexico with the southern-most cell developing into a low-topped supercell. Hail was described as very hard. |
| Apr 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Loop, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 2864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 302219 SVRMAF TXC165-302315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 518 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GAINES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF HIGGINBOTHAM...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... THE FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY...LOOP...HIGGINBOTHAM...SEMINOLE AND SEAGRAVES. QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM WEST OF DENVER CITY AT 510 PM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...ALONG WITH WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3295 10301 3286 10305 3261 10239 3295 10228 &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.