Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 140
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 31, 2000, 8:00 PM CST for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2000, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2000, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 8:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sterling | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 10:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.