Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 116
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 25, 2000, 11:45 PM CST for 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2000, 11:45 PM CST (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 2:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Navarro | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 3:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 4:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 26, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 21 more | 6 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.