Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2000, 12:15 PM CDT for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 19, 2000, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sterling County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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 19, 12:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sterling City, 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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 19, 7:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 7:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 700 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000 STRONGEST ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT HAS SWEPT SOUTHEAST OUT OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...NEW CONVECTION ALREADY STARTING TO DEVELOP OUT ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO TWEAK POP CHANCES AND WINDS ACROSS THE SOUTH. 07 N N
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 19, 8:06 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
806 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM 4 E CREWS TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 COLEMAN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
0816 PM BURKETT TX 2.50 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 COLEMAN TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL
0843 PM CROSS CUT TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 BROWN QUARTER SIZE HAIL
0847 PM WILLIAMS TX 3.00 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 BROWN REPORTED BY LOCAL SHERIFF
0850 PM MAY TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 BROWN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
1030 PM TANKERSLY TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 TOM GREEN NICKEL SIZE HAIL
1034 PM BANGS TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 BROWN QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY LOCAL SHERIFF
1045 PM BROWNWOOD TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 BROWN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY LOCAL SHERIFF
1050 PM SAN ANGELO TX 2.25 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 TOM GREEN REPORTED AT NWS OFFICE IN
SAN ANGELO NEAR AIRPORT
1130 PM ROBERT LEE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00 COKE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY LOCAL SHERIFF
TEW
NThe 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, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 97 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, 12:20 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 |
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.