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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 28, 2000Brown County, Coleman County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2000, 8:19 PM CDT for Brown County, Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Oct 28, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Brown County, TX, Coleman 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, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KSJT 290120
SVRSJT
TXC049-083-290215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
819 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COLEMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF TRICKHAM...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  SOUTH OF SANTA ANNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   TRICKHAM AT 825 PM CDT
   BROOKESMITH AT 830 PM CDT

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS NICKELS 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 3152 9938 3143 9934 3148 9925 3148 9887
          3172 9890

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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, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute 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.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 28, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Kimble	53 min
Oct 28, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	44 min
Oct 28, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	35 min
Oct 28, 10:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Menard, Schleicher, Sutton	3 hr
Oct 29, 3:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Brown	3 hr
Oct 29, 9:09 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Menard	2 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.