Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2000, 7:06 PM CDT for Caldwell County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2000, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Martindale, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 3358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 4, 7:00 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 7:00 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 700 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2000 UPDATED ZONES TO BOOST POPS EAST...ADD POPS SAT AREA FOR THIS EVENING AND ADD MENTION OF POSSIBLY SEVERE EAST HALF OF CWA. HIGH CAPES...ESPECIALLY E/SE WITH LITTLE CAP. OTHERWISE NO CHANGES. READY FOR THIS NASTY UPPER LOW TO MOVE ON OUT. .EWX...NONE. 03/01/20
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 4, 5:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ193-194-209-223>225-042245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2000 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS DEVELOPED NEAR LAKE FAYETTE IN FAYETTE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY SOUTH A NEAR 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE TOWNS OF FAYETTEVILLE AND ELLINGER WILL LIKELY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM DURING THE NEXT HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INDOORS. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY...AVOID USING TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 67 min |
| May 4, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 64 min |
| May 4, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 62 min |
| May 4, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 62 min |
| May 4, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 64 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.