Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 106
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 21, 2000, 11:00 PM CST for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 2000, 11:00 PM CST (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 11:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 39 min |
| Mar 21, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 75 min |
| Mar 21, 11:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 65 min |
| Mar 22, 12:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 12:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 12:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 12:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 12:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 65 min |
| Mar 22, 1:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 1:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 55 min |
| Mar 22, 1:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 1:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 1:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 51 min |
| Mar 22, 2:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 4:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 117 min |
| Mar 22, 4:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 62 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 1:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 11 more | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.