Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 74
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 7, 2000, 6:00 PM CST for 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2000, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Travis County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 36 min |
| Mar 7, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 54 min |
| Mar 7, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 26 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 40 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.