Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dawson County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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, 6:32 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Lamesa, TX | Gaines County storm continued to the east. |
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 302317 SVRMAF TXC115-010015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 615 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DAWSON COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF WELCH...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMESA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ARVANA...HANCOCK...PUNKIN CENTER...GRANDVIEW...PRIDE AND WELCH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF TENNIS BALLS. LARGE HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAYd FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3296 10220 3284 10220 3274 10169 3296 10169
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, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.