Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2000, 7:29 AM CDT for Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 19, 2000, 7:29 AM CDT (12:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kerr County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
596 WUUS54 KEWX 191231 SVRSAT TXC265-191330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 729 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KERR COUNTY * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 729 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF HUNT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KERR WILDLIFE MGMT AREA AROUND 740 AM CDT HUNT AROUND 810 AM CDT INGRAM AROUND 825 AM CDT IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3009 9966 2996 9964 2999 9912 3017 9938
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 19, 3:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 3:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 300 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000 SATELLITE IMAGERY SUGGESTS A SUBTROPICAL JET STREAK OVER CENTRAL MEXICO PROVIDING LIFT FOR THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. CURRENT WEATHER HAS THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST OVER CENTRAL TEXAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EASTWARD. TRENDS IS FOR ACTIVITY TO TREK ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH WIDESPREAD POP ACTIVITY AREAWIDE SATURDAY. CONTINUE WINDY TODAY WITH RAIN CHANCES RISING SLOWLY THROUGH SATURDAY...WITH HIGHEST POPS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY...ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST...WITH ADDITIONAL CHANCE OF POPS EXPECTED UNTIL TUESDAY. PRELIMS NUMBERS... DRT 93/68/85/65 4553 AUS 85/65/83/65 5653 SAT 87/68/85/68 4553 .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 5:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 521 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS PERSISTS ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY THIS MORNING AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WHILE AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS WILL INTERACT WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WHERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TRAVERSE THE SAME AREA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS ARE ADVISED TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY. FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN MIDLAND...SAN ANGELO...FORT WORTH... HOUSTON/GALVESTON...AND CORPUS CHRISTI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 53 min |
| May 19, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 54 min |
| May 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 2 hr |
| May 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 58 min |
| May 19, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.