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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2000, 3:18 PM CDT for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 72 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2000, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 72 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sterling 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 |
| Oct 28, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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
- 878 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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 Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 318 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 LOTS GOING ON THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL KEEP THIS IS SHORT. SEVERAL LINES OF STORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST TEXAS. ONE LINE FROM SJT TO ABI IS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. A SECOND LINE...CONTAINING AN IMPRESSIVE BOW...IS RAPIDLY MOVING INTO THE WESTERN COUNTIES FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTH PLAINS. WITH STORMS MOVING THROUGH...WILL CARRY LIKELY POPS AREAWIDE FOR TONIGHT. UPPER SYSTEM CLEARS EVEN THE SOUTHEAST ZONES BY SUNRISE...SO WILL STICK WITH A DRY FORECAST FOR SUNDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM DIVES IN FOR TUESDAY...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF STORMS. ABI 056/074/055/077 9000 SJT 058/075/055/078 8000 JCT 060/075/055/078 7100 .SJT...NONE. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 28, 11:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 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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NNNNSpecial weather statement, Oct 28, 2:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 201 PM 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 LATE 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 AS ALREADY BEGUN.. 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. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 55 min |
| Oct 28, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 74 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 |
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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.