Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 379
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Brown County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 89 min |
| May 27, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 89 min |
| May 27, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 51 min |
| May 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason, Menard | 53 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 2665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Callahan, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Ellis, Fannin and 19 more | 5 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.