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Tornado Watch 139

March 31, 200017 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 31, 2000, 4:15 PM CST for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 2000, 4:15 PM CST (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 5:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane46 min
Mar 31, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard32 min
Mar 31, 5:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Midland38 min
Mar 31, 6:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland4 hr
Mar 31, 6:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland48 min
Mar 31, 6:46 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock, Midland29 min
Mar 31, 7:12 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock63 min
Mar 31, 7:32 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTSterling43 min
Mar 31, 8:12 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTSterling48 min
Mar 31, 10:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 505 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
505 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
534 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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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.