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Tornado Warning 6, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 22, 2000Fisher County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 7:57 PM CST for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Fisher 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
Mar 22, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSJT 230158
TORSJT
TXC151-230230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
757 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FISHER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CST

* AT 751 PM CST...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF 
ROTAN. RESIDENTS OF ROTAN AND MOTORISTS ALONG HIGHWAY 70 NORTH OF 
ROTAN SHOULD "TAKE COVER NOW. 

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3286 10061 3273 10045 3310 9994 3329 10017

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, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sterling	50 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

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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.