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Tornado Warning 4, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 7:03 PM CST for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2000, 7:03 PM CST (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fisher County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:49 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Rotan, TX | |
| Mar 22, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Rotan, TX | A spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown 6 miles southwest of Rotan in northern Fisher County. No damage was reported. |
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, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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.
- 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 230104 TORSJT TXC151-230200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 703 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FISHER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 700 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROTAN... OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ROTAN AT 800 PM CST ROBY AT 800 PM CST THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3255 1008#8 3242 10073 3274 10027 3295 10045
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sterling | 47 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.