Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 762
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 24, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 60 min |
| Oct 24, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 28 min |
| Oct 24, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 4:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 24 min |
| Oct 24, 4:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 5:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 6:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 6:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 6:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 6:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 7:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 22 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.