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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 23, 2000Coke County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2000, 1:58 AM CST for Coke County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 92 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2000, 1:58 AM CST (07:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2000, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 92 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coke County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Mar 23, 2:50 AM CST	Hail 0.75	Tankersly, TX
Mar 23, 3:10 AM CST	Hail 0.75	San Angelo, TX
Mar 23, 3:13 AM CST	Hail 0.88	San Angelo, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 23, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 230800
SVRSJT
TXC081-451-230930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TOM GREEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
  COKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 330 AM CST

* AT 158 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF
  SILVER TO 10 MILES WEST OF WATER VALLEY TO 28 MILES WEST OF       
  KNICKERBOCKER MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WATER VALLEY AT 220 AM CST
  CARLSBAD AT 235 AM CST
  GRAPE CREEK...TANKERSLEY AT 250 AM CST
  ROBERT LEE AT 255 AM CST
  KNICKERBOCKER AT 300 AM CST
  SAN ANGELO AT 310 AM CST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVE INTO A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

TEW

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, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 11:45 PM CST, 2 hours 13 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, 1:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	84 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

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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.