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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS San Angelo, TX

April 30, 2000Coleman County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 9:14 PM CDT for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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: Apr 30, 2000, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Coleman County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 30, 9:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Coleman, TX	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a carport and downed power lines across the town of Coleman.

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
Apr 30, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 2110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.9
Supercell composite: 30.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KSJT 010215
SVRSJT
TXC083-010315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
914 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLEMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF VALERA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST
  OF COLEMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COLEMAN AT 1015 PM CDT

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS GOLF BALLS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MOVE 
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BsUILDING AND 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3171 9960 3173 9927 3190 9925 3191 9953

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 Apr 30, 8:29 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 8:29 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
829 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR HASKELL AND THROCKMORTON COUNTIES UNTIL
1000PM...

HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE SOME OF THE WESTERN COUNTIES FROM THREAT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  FRONT HAS JUST PASSED STERLING CITY AND SWEETWATER.
DROPPED FISHER...NOLAN...STERLING...IRION FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT.

.SJT...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 30, 8:51 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

TXZ054-127-128-139-140-010300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
0850PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...NOLAN...JONES...TAYLOR...FISHER...

CONDITIONS HAVE BECOME LESS FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE STORMS TO OCCUR IN
THESE COUNTIES WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE DRY LINE AND COLD FRONT.

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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
Apr 30, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	47 min
Apr 30, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	76 min
Apr 30, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels, Tom Green	62 min
Apr 30, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coleman	44 min
Apr 30, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	32 min
Apr 30, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	59 min
Apr 30, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown	41 min
Apr 30, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	73 min
Apr 30, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	45 min
Apr 30, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	40 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.