Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 760
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 23, 2000, 11:45 AM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 2000, 11:45 AM MDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2000, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 11:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 62 min |
| Oct 23, 12:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 61 min |
| Oct 23, 12:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 60 min |
| Oct 23, 1:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 34 min |
| Oct 23, 1:14 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 37 min |
| Oct 23, 3:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving, Midland and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 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.