Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 763
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 28, 2000, 8:45 AM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2000, 8:45 AM MDT (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:48 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 11:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 46 min |
| Oct 28, 12:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 12:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 37 min |
| Oct 28, 12:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 35 min |
| Oct 28, 1:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 35 min |
| Oct 28, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 40 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 28, 10:00 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lea | 5 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson | 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.