Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 8:08 PM CDT for Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 97 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2000, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Runnels County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rowena, 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 4726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 18, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 18, 5:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-190200- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 517 PM CDT THU MAY 18 2000 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE SLIGHT RISK THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS ENCOMPASSES AN AREA SOUTHEAST OF A THROCKMORTON TO STERLING CITY LINE...AND NORTH OF AN ELDORADO TO CHEROKEE LINE. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH THROUGH THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND THIS EVENING...BEFORE STALLING OVER THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY LATE TONIGHT. LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALLOW FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT AS IT MOVES SOUTH. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AFTER DEVELOPING. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...WITH A WEAK STEERING FLOW ALOFT...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.. FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT. 19 N
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 81 min |
| May 18, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 42 min |
| May 18, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 57 min |
| May 18, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 55 min |
| May 18, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman | 59 min |
| May 18, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 60 min |
| May 18, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 86 min |
| May 18, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 55 min |
| May 18, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 45 min |
| May 18, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 63 min |
| May 19, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 48 min |
| May 19, 3:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 118 min |
| May 19, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 53 min |
| May 19, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 26 min |
| May 19, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 48 min |
| May 19, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 59 min |
| May 19, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 52 min |
| May 19, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 45 min |
| May 19, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Sutton | 25 min |
| May 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 53 min |
| May 19, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 57 min |
| May 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 63 min |
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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.