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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 23, 2000Fisher County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2000, 1:21 AM CST for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 84 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2000, 1:21 AM CST (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2000, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 84 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fisher County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 23, 2:10 AM CST	Hail 0.88	Roby, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KSJT 230723
SVRSJT
TXC151-230845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
121 AM CST THU MAR 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FISHER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 245 AM CST

* AT 117 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROTAN...MOVING         
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROTAN AT 220 AM CST.

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS BASEBALLS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MOVE TO AN 
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY 
FROM WINDOW S.

LAT...LON 3258 10084 3252 10017 3294 10016 3294 10064

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 Mar 22, 11:45 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 11:45 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1145 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000

PER MOST RECENTLY ISSUELATD TORNADO WATCH...WILL UPDATE ZONES
ACCORDINGLY.

.SJT...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES REMAINDER OF TONIGHT ALL ZONES.

19
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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
Mar 22, 6:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sterling	47 min
Mar 22, 7:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	57 min
Mar 22, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sterling	50 min
Mar 22, 7:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	33 min
Mar 22, 8:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	54 min
Mar 22, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	60 min
Mar 22, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	28 min
Mar 22, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	31 min
Mar 23, 12:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	69 min
Mar 23, 1:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	103 min
Mar 23, 1:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	67 min
Mar 23, 1:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	92 min
Mar 23, 2:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Fisher	3 hr
Mar 23, 2:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	16 min
Mar 23, 3:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.