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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS San Angelo, TX
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.
- 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
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. 15
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. 20
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 10:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 119 min |
| Oct 17, 12:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 3 hr |
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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.