Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 44
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 22, 2000, 1:15 PM CST for 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2000, 1:15 PM CST (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Reagan | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 66 min |
| Feb 22, 4:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 57 min |
| Feb 22, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 47 min |
| Feb 22, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
166
WWUS9 KMKC 221856
SEL4
SEL4
MKC WW 221856
TXZ000-230100-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 44
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1256 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000
THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHWEST...CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 115 PM UNTIL 700
PM CST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 90 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 90 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION TEXAS TO 70 MILES
NORTH OF ABILENE TEXAS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY THIS AFTERNOON
OVER W TX AS PACIFIC COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED UPPER TROUGH
OVERTAKE SURFACE DRY LINE. HODOGRAPHS SHOULD LENGTHEN WITH
TIME...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SRN HALF OF WATCH AREA...AS NRN NEXICO
SPEED MAX CONTINUES EWD. THIS SHOULD ENHANCE SUPERCELL/POSSIBLE
TORNADO POTENTIAL DESPITE LINEAR FORCING OF DRY LINE.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23040.
...CORFIDI
332,0980 293,0991 293,1021 332,1011SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 9 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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.