Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 229
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2000, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Polk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Waller | 42 min |
| May 2, 2:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend, Waller | 33 min |
| May 2, 2:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 39 min |
| May 2, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, San Jacinto | 46 min |
| May 2, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 54 min |
| May 2, 3:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty | 46 min |
| May 2, 3:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston | 65 min |
| May 2, 3:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 52 min |
| May 2, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 68 min |
| May 2, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 46 min |
| May 2, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 60 min |
| May 2, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 23 min |
| May 2, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 38 min |
| May 2, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 55 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 1 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.