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Tornado Warning 7, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 22, 2000Fisher County, Nolan County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 8:06 PM CST for Fisher County, Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. 2 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, 8:06 PM CST (02:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fisher County, TX, Nolan County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 22, 8:17 PM CST	Tornado F0	Roscoe, TX	A spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown across extreme northwest Nolan County.
Mar 22, 8:22 PM CST	Tornado F0	Roby, TX	The same spotter who reported a brief tornado touchdown in extreme northwest Nolan County reported a second brief tornado touchdown in extreme southwest Fisher County.

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
Mar 22, 7:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.

156 
WFUS54 KSJT 230206
TORSJT
TXC151-353-230300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWEST NOLAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
  SOUTHERN FISHER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 801 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF       
  WASTELLA ...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF COLORADO CITY...MOVING        
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WASTELLA AT 820 PM CST
  CAPITOLA AT 835 PM CST
  LONGWORTH AT 850 PM CST
  ROBY AT 900 PM CST

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 3243 10094 3230 10079 3266 10028 3285 10051

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, 7:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.