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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 29, 2000Mason County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2000, 3:08 AM CST for Mason County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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 29, 2000, 3:08 AM CST (09:08 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 2000, 3:45 AM CST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mason County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 290 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KSJT 290908
SVRSJT
TXC319-290945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
308 AM CST WED MAR 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MASON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 345 AM CST

* AT 305 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF LOYAL VALLEY...OR ABOUT 9
  MILES SOUTH OF MASON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 3078 9920 3051 9930 3023 9852 3048 9840

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 29, 12:21 AM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 12:21 AM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1220 AM WED MAR 29 2000

DRYLINE RETREATING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...AND WITH DOUBLE
DIGIT UVV'S...THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELO!PING. ZONE UPDATE ALREADY HIT
THE STREETS.

.SJT...NONE.

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.