Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2000

Tornado Warning 5, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 22, 2000Sterling County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 7:55 PM CST for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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: Mar 22, 2000, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 50 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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 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, 7:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 230156
TORSJT
TXC431-230245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
755 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 845 PM CST

* AT 754 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER CENTRAL GLASSCOCK COUNTY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 87 IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF STERLING
  COUNTY AROUND 810 PM CST.  

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDIuNG...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3189 10159 3176 10144 3212 10094 3231 10116

TEW

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, 7:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	57 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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes in 2000

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.