Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 315
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT for 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Bandera County, TX, Borden County, TX, Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Martin County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 29 min |
| May 19, 2:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| May 19, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 54 min |
| May 19, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 53 min |
| May 19, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 57 min |
| May 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 2 hr |
| May 19, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 63 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 20 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.