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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 133

March 29, 200035 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 29, 2000, 3:30 AM CST for 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 2000, 3:30 AM CST (09:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 2000, 9:00 AM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Comal County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Travis County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 4:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet60 min
Mar 29, 6:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays27 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1241 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
1241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.5

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 6:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet and 18 more5 hr
Mar 28, 8:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 21 more5 hr
Mar 28, 10:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 39 more6 hr
Mar 29, 1:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCamp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 11 more7 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.