Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 58
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 25, 2000, 10:30 PM CST for 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2000, 10:30 PM CST (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2000, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Bosque County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Panola County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 42 min |
| Feb 25, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 65 min |
| Feb 25, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 35 min |
| Feb 25, 11:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 53 min |
| Feb 25, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 53 min |
| Feb 25, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Hunt | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 12:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 58 min |
| Feb 26, 12:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 54 min |
| Feb 26, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 60 min |
| Feb 26, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 15 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 2:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 53 min |
| Feb 26, 3:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 53 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 2706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lamar | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bowie, Brazos, Camp and 38 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.