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Tornado Warning 29, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 7:37 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 28, 2000, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kimble 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
533 WFUS54 KSJT 290037 TORSJT TXC267-290130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 737 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KIMBLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 735 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF TELEGRAPH...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTH OF ROCKSPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TELEGRAPH AT 800 PM CDT JUNCTION AT 820 PM CDT SEGOVIA AT 830 PM CDT 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. LAT...LON 3046 10011 3030 10012 3029 9944 3053 9948 12
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 28, 3:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 318 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 LOTS GOING ON THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL KEEP THIS IS SHORT. SEVERAL LINES OF STORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST TEXAS. ONE LINE FROM SJT TO ABI IS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. A SECOND LINE...CONTAINING AN IMPRESSIVE BOW...IS RAPIDLY MOVING INTO THE WESTERN COUNTIES FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTH PLAINS. WITH STORMS MOVING THROUGH...WILL CARRY LIKELY POPS AREAWIDE FOR TONIGHT. UPPER SYSTEM CLEARS EVEN THE SOUTHEAST ZONES BY SUNRISE...SO WILL STICK WITH A DRY FORECAST FOR SUNDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM DIVES IN FOR TUESDAY...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF STORMS. ABI 056/074/055/077 9000 SJT 058/075/055/078 8000 JCT 060/075/055/078 7100 .SJT...NONE. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 28, 2:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-282025- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 201 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 ...THERE IS MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM OZONA TO BROWNWOOD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A VERY VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY AND STRONG WIND SHEAR... ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. CONDITIONS ARE MOST FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM OZONA TO BROWNWOOD. HOWEVER... THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH PRECIPITATION RATES. RAINFALL RATES WILL APPROACH 2 INCHES AN HOUR. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY. AS THE DAY PROGRESSES... ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLY TORNADO WATCHES WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION AS ALREADY BEGUN.. FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 44 min |
| Oct 28, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 56 min |
| Oct 28, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 35 min |
| Oct 28, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard, Schleicher, Sutton | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 3:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 3 hr |
| Oct 29, 9:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard | 2 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.