Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2000, 8:12 PM CST for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2000, 8:12 PM CST (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sterling County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 010213 TORSJT TXC431-010300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 812 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STERLING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 809 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF STERLING CITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... STERLING CITY AT 820 PM CST IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES...AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 7:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sterling | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 56 min |
| Apr 1, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 43 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000
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.