Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 3:40 PM CST for Irion County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 3:40 PM CST (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Irion County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 3:50 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Tankersly, TX | |
| Mar 7, 4:10 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | San Angelo, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 870 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 072141 SVRSJT TXC235-451-072245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 340 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... IRION COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TOM GREEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 340 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHERWOOD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MERTZON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KNICKERBOCKER AT 350 PM CST TANKERSLEY AT 355 PM CST SAN ANGELO AT 410 PM CST VERIBEST AT 425 PM CST ORIENT AT 430 PM CST DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! TEW
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 42 min |
| Mar 7, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 52 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.