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Tornado Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 6:43 PM CST for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. 6 reports 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
- Mar 22, 2000, 6:43 PM CST (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sterling County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:45 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Garden City, TX | The tornado crossed US 87 two miles west of the Glasscock/Sterling county line. This storm continued through the northwest corner of Sterling County and into southwest Mitchell County where another tornado formed. |
| Mar 22, 6:45 PM CST | Hail 2 | Garden City, TX | Hail broke car windows. |
| Mar 22, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Westbrook, TX | The Glasscock county tornadic storm occluded, then formed another mesocyclone in the southwest corner of Mitchell County. |
| Mar 22, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Sterling City, TX | A tornado crossed Highway 87 northwest of Sterling City. No damage was reported. |
| Mar 22, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Sterling City, TX | A large tornado was reported by spotters 5 miles inside the Sterling County line northwest of Sterling City. |
| Mar 22, 7:40 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Colorado City, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSJT 230044 TORSJT TXC431-230130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 643 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST STERLING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 636 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL GLASSCOCK COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 87 ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF STERLING COUNTY AROUND 650 PM CST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NqEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. LAT...LON 3197 10149 3183 10136 3224 10063 3246 10082
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 57 min |
| Mar 22, 7:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sterling | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 7:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 33 min |
| Mar 22, 8:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 60 min |
| Mar 22, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 28 min |
| Mar 22, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 69 min |
| Mar 23, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 103 min |
| Mar 23, 1:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 67 min |
| Mar 23, 1:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 84 min |
| Mar 23, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 92 min |
| Mar 23, 2:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Fisher | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 16 min |
| Mar 23, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.