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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 17, 2000Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 2000, 10:17 AM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Oct 17, 2000, 10:17 AM CDT (15:17 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 2000, 10:45 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1777 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1777 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KSJT 171518
SVRSJT
TXC441-171545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1017 AM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1045 AM CDT

* AT 1015 AM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER   
ABILENE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS NICKEL SIZE ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MOVE 
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3246 9990 3233 9975 3246 9965 3250 9977

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 Oct 17, 9:28 AM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 9:28 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
928 AM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000

TWO LINES OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS CONTINUE TO CONVERGE FROM THE NORTHWEST
AND THE SOUTHWEST ON THE CONCHO VALLEY.  HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF THE DAY THROUGHOUT ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
ISSUED A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR CROCKETT COUNTY.

.SJT...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 17, 5:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-171440-

WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
545 AM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY...MAINLY WEST OF A BROWNWOOD MASON LINE.  AN
UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL DRIFT SOUTH ACROSS NEW MEXICO TODAY.
DISTURBANCES FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL INTERACT WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE
OVER WEST TEXAS TO HELP GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
TODAY.

UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT.  SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS COULD APPROACH
SEVERE CRITERIA...HOWEVER THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN ISOLATED. GUSTY
WINDS NEAR 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED..

THIS OUTLOOK WILL RESUME SCHEDULED ISSUANCE ON MARCH 15 2001.
HOWEVER... THIS OUTLOOK WILL CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED AS NEEDED WHEN
THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 10:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTaylor119 min
Oct 17, 12:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTaylor3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.