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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 23, 2000Concho County, Runnels County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2000, 3:29 AM CST for Concho County, Runnels County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: Mar 23, 2000, 3:29 AM CST (09:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2000, 4:15 AM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Concho County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Tom Green 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
Mar 23, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.

904 
WUUS54 KSJT 230935
SVRSJT
TXC095-399-451-231015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN RUNNELS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
  NORTHERN CONCHO COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
  NORTHEASTERN TOM GREEN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 415 AM CST

* AT 328 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF VERIBEST...OR ABOUT 15
  MILES EAST OF SAN ANGELO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LOWAKE AT 355 AM CST
  ROWENA AT 400 AM CST

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT
DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3166 10039 3139 10033 3144 9977 3174 9985

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 23, 2:10 AM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 2:10 AM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
210 AM CST THU MAR 23 2000

SQUALL LINE CURRENTLY PUSHING SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS WESTERN CWA REQUIRING
SEVERAL SEVERE TSTM WARNINGS.  FIRST PERIOD FORECAST WILL BE BASED MAINLY ON
TIMING OF SQUALL LINE...WITH EASTERN AREAS LIKELY SEEING RAIN THIS MORNING.
UPPER LEVEL LOW STILL PUSHING SLOWLY EASTWARD OVER NEW MEXICO...EXPECTED TO
FINALLY PUSH NORTHEASTWARD INTO OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON.

CLOUDS SHOULD CLEAR OFF FROM WEST TO EAST THIS AFTERNOON...WITH GUSTY WINDS
FOR MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON.  WEAK RIDGE BUILDS IN BEHIND THE LOW...WITH WARM
TEMPERATURES FOR FRIDAY.  NEXT UPPER LOW AND POSSIBILITY OF RAIN LOOKS LIKE
MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO TUESDAY AS UPPER LOW PUSHES INTO WEST TEXAS AND A
SURFACE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE AREA.

PRELIMS...WILL REFINE AS FORECAST ISSUANCE TIME APPROACHES BASED ON LOCATION
OF SQUALL LINE...

ABI 072/049/078/052 4000
SJT 075/047/080/051 2000
JCT 077/045/080/053 6000

.SJT...TORNADO WATCH 112 FOR CONCHO VALLEY...NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU AND
MENARD AND KIMBLE COUNTY IN THE NW HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 6 AM. CAUTION ADVISED
ON AREA LAKES TODAY.

08
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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, 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

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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.