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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2000, 1:35 PM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 28, 2000, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sutton County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 281835 SVRSJT TXC435-281930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 135 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SONORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SONORA AT 150 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROOM CREEK BEDS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3062 10085 3031 10083 3068 10020 3070 10056 12
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 28, 11:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 11:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1128 AM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 HAVE ISSUED UPDATED ZONES FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH FOR IRION... STERLING... AND CROCKETT COUNTIES. NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT UPDATES TO THE FORECAST AT THIS TIME. WOULD ANTIPATE FURTHER UPDATES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS A VERY STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. 12
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 28, 11:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-282025-
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1137 AM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000
...THERE IS MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF
A LINE FROM OZONA TO BROWNWOOD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...
A VERY VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY AND
STRONG WIND SHEAR... ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS
LIKELY. CONDITIONS ARE MOST FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM OZONA TO BROWNWOOD. HOWEVER... THE POTENTIAL
FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH PRECIPITATION
RATES. RAINFALL RATES WILL APPROACH 2 INCHES AN HOUR. LOCALIZED
FLOODING WILL POSSIBLE.
A TORNADO WATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN AND
WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY. AS THE DAY PROGRESSES... ADDITIONAL SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLY TORNADO WATCHES WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED.
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED..
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.
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NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 74 min |
| Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 72 min |
| Oct 28, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 24 min |
| Oct 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.