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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kimble 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
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, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 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
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, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 56 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.