Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 117
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 26, 2000, 4:30 AM CST for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2000, 4:30 AM CST (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Angelina County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Polk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 4:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Madison | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 5:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Walker | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 5:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Trinity | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 5:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 5:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 6:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 6:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 25, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bosque, Cherokee, Comanche, Dallas and 26 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.