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Tornado Warning 30, NWS San Angelo, TX

November 2, 2000Kimble County, Mason County, Menard County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 2, 2000, 3:14 PM CST for Kimble County, Mason County, Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: Nov 2, 2000, 3:14 PM CST (21:14 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, Menard County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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
Nov 2, 3:55 PM CST	Hail 1	Mason, 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
Nov 2, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 463 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

196 
WFUS54 KSJT 022114
TORSJT
TXC267-319-327-022145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
314 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST MENARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  MASON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  NORTHWEST KIMBLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 310 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONDON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF JUNCTION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   STREETER AT 330 PM CST
   MASON AT 340 PM CST

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 3064 9967 3051 9952 3076 9921 3079 9963

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 2, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher	48 min
Nov 2, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Mason, Menard	52 min
Nov 2, 3:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Mason	30 min
Nov 2, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason	30 min
Nov 2, 4:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels, Taylor	45 min
Nov 2, 5:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	31 min
Nov 2, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	48 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.