Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 225
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 30, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Jones County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 76 min |
| Apr 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels, Tom Green | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Cooke, Denton and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Haskell, Jack and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Henderson and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cottle, Dickens and 13 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.