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Tornado Warning 26, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2000, 12:54 AM CDT for Crockett County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Oct 24, 2000, 12:54 AM CDT (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Crockett County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1848 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 240555 TORSJT TXC105-240700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1254 AM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CROCKETT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 1253 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 27 MILES SOUTH OF OZONA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OZONA AT 145 AM CDT MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3033 10133 3032 10099 3082 10097 3082 10155
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Oct 23, 9:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 9:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
913 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000
THE REGIONAL RADAR LOOP SHOWS AN MCS EXTENDING FROM MIDLAND TO EAST OF
SANDERSON AND WAS MOVING EAST. DUE TO THE SUBTROPICAL AIRMASS IN PLACE...
THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL BE A VERY EFFICIENT RAINFALL PRODUCER.
WITH THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND... ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM THIS
SYSTEM COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING... AS WELL AS AGGRAVATE THE EXISTING
FLOODING IN OUR SRN ZONES. AS A RESULT... UPDATED THE FFA TO INCLUDE THE
CONCHO VALLEY.
.SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU...
NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY.
TEWIn the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 23, 11:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1134 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM TELEGRAPH TX FLOODING
10/23/00 KIMBLE HIGHWAY 377 FLOODED NEAR
THE SOUTH LLANO RIVER. SOME
EVACUATIONS WERE REPORTED.
0450 PM 20 S SONORA TX FLOODING
10/23/00 SUTTON SEVERAL VEHICLES
REPORTED TRAPPED BETWEEN
DRAWS ON HIGHWAY 189
0450 PM 15 S OZONA TX FLOODING
10/23/00 CROCKETT HIGHWAY 163 CLOSED TO DUE
TO FLOODING
0640 PM 5 SW MASON TX FLOODING
10/23/00 MASON THREE FEET OF WATER OVER
RANCH ROAD 1871
0645 PM BRADY TX FLOODING
10/23/00 MCCULLOCH FIVE FEET OF WATER COVERING
RANCH ROAD 1311
0833 PM RICHLAND SPRINGS TX FLOODING
10/23/00 SAN SABA HOUSE FLOODED
1005 PM 15 S BROWNWOOD TX FLOODING
10/23/00 BROWN RANCH ROAD 45 CLOSED AT
THE BROWN/MILLS COUNTY LINE
DUE TO FLOODING
18The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 42 min |
| Oct 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sterling | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coke | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 12:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 3 hr |
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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.