Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2000, 10:01 PM CDT for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2000, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lee County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 020302 SVRSAT TXC287-020330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1001 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... LEE COUNTY * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 1001 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF TANGLEWOOD...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. R LAT...LON 3057 9697 3032 9716 3028 9670
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 1, 9:20 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 9:20 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 920 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000 925 MB TO 850 MB FRONT OVR AREA TNGT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE E TO SE AS S/W TROF ON SOUTHERN PART OF LOW PASSES THROUGH AREA. HAVE INCREASED CHC OF RAIN...AS LIFT AND INSTABILITY WILL CONT TONIGHT AND INTO PART OF TUESDAY. EXPECT PSBL DECREASE IN CHC OF RAIN TUE NIGHT AND WED...WITH LINGERING CHC OF RAIN PSBL FAR SE PART OF CWA. NEXT WX SYS APRROACHES FM NW FRI AND SAT...WITH NEXT OPPORTUNITY FOR RAIN...THEN RIDGE BUILDS IN FM WEST CAUSING LIMITED RAIN IN A SUN TO THURSDAY TIME WINDOW OF NEXT WEEK. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... DRT 61/81/62/85 3322 AUS 60/74/61/80 9632 SAT 60/76/62/82 8622 .EWX...NONE. 08/03/21
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 9:12 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-020930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 912 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND INTO PART OF TUESDAY... A GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT AND INTO PART OF TUESDAY. A WEATHER SYSTEM TO THE WEST WILL PASS OVER THE AREA...PROVIDING A GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN. AS THIS WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY...THE CHANCE OF RAIN WILL DIMINISH WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM COMING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MAY PROVIDE ANOTHER CHANCE OF RAIN. SOME OF TH`E SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT MAY BE SEVERE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
Local storm report, May 1, 9:58 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
958 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM HORSESHOE BAY TX .88 INCH HAIL
05/01/00 LLANO
0740 PM MARBLE FALLS TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/01/00 BURNET
0915 PM TAYLOR TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/01/00 WILLIAMSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 39 min |
| May 1, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 45 min |
| May 1, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 61 min |
| May 1, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 54 min |
| May 1, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 47 min |
| May 2, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Williamson | 115 min |
| May 2, 12:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Travis | 3 hr |
| May 2, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 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.