I heard about the storms storms also confirmed in mississippi, also looked at the austin texas warnings and some of counties still had warnings at 11 o'clock drop me an e-mail sometime.
On Sat, 11 March 2000, "Ronnie Prcin" wrote:
>
> Storm Report For Temple, Bell County, Texas (130 mi. South Dallas, Texas)
> for Friday, March 10, 2000
>
> Central Texans experienced their second bout with severe weather this year
> as a severe thunderstorm moved through the area shortly after 6 p.m. This
> year's storm season got off to an early February 22 start.
>
> A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued for Bell and surround counties
> effective from 10 a.m until 3 p.m. The watch box was 80 statue miles east
> and west of a line from 65 miles SW of Temple, Texas to 75 miles SE of
> Dallas, Texas. Most of the weather during this period occurred in the
> Dallas/Fort Worth area.
>
> A second Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued for Bell and surround
> counties effective from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. This watch box was 100 statue
> miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east of San Antonio, Texas to
> 65 miles NNE of Waco, Texas.
>
> Around 5:30 p.m., two groups of thunderstorms began to form, one to the
> east of the area and one to the west. The storms to the east were no threat
> as they were moving off to the east but a Tornado Watch was issued until
> midnight for a large part of Southeast Texas.
>
> At 6:22 p.m. , the NWS issued a Tornado Warning for Bell County. Doppler
> Radar had detected a severe thunderstorm with a tornado circulation 6 miles
> west of Morgan's Point Resort (15 miles W of my location). About this same
> time, ham radio operators near the Lake Belton area began report a wall
> cloud with circulation.
>
> I was on my way home from work and pulled into the west parking lot of
> Scott and White Hospital to begin spotting for this storm. There were
> several low hanging clouds from the approaching storm but none could be
> classified as wall clouds and there was no rotation noted.
>
> The storm hit my location about 6:40 p.m. with heavy rain and intermittent
> pea and marble sized hail. Wind was not a problem as the peak wind gust
> during the storm on my home weather station was 20 mph. The rain and
> intermittent hail continued for about 20 minutes resulting in some minor
> street flooding in the usual locations. By shortly after 7 p.m., the storm
> had left the area and skies cleared briefly before low clouds moved back
> in.
>
> There have been no official storm damage report released by the NWS as of
> 10 p.m. One of the skycams for KWTX Channel 10 picked up a nice lowering
> out of a wall cloud near Killeen. KWTX also reported a roof blown off a
> building 8 miles south of Belton and power lines down in Kosse and
> Rockdale. A ham operator reported the electricity out at 9th and Adams in
> downtown Temple during the height of the storm.
>
> A cold front moved in behind the line of storms dropping the temperature
> from 80 degrees at 6 p.m. to 57 degrees at 10 p.m. with a 33 mph wind gust
> from the NW at 9:30 p.m.
>
> Photos of the approaching storm can be viewed at
> http://www.vvm.com/~rprcin/storm.htm
>
> Ronnie
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