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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 9:54 PM CST for Edwards County, Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 9:54 PM CST (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 2759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 23.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 080355 SVRSAT TXC137-271-080500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 954 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... EDWARDS COUNTY KINNEY COUNTY * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 954 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF DEL RIO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN DEL RIO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/ LAT...LON 2945 10067 2929 10067 2964 10025 2984 10066
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 Mar 7, 9:18 PM CST, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 9:18 PM CST, 36 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 918 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 LINE OF STORMS ALONG PACIFIC FRONT EXTENDS FROM NORTHEAST OF ROCKSPRINGS TO LLANO TO FORT WORTH. SOUTHERN END HAS BEEN GETTING A LITTLE BETTER ORGANIZED THANKS TO TAIL END OF SHORT-WAVE TROUGH ROTATING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND DIFFLUENCE BETWEEN UPPER JETS. THUS...WILL MAINTAIN SEVERE MENTIONS NORTHERN CWA AND BOOST POPS MOST AREAS. EXCEPT FAR WEST WHERE WILL DROP POPS DUE DRIER AIRMASS FILTERING IN. OTHERWISE...NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE UPDATE. 04/18. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 5:00 PM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
TXZ171>173-186>194-204>208-219-220-080300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... AN UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS WEST TEXAS INTO CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. A SURFACE TROUGH OR DRY LINE SEPERATING MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR TO THE EAST FROM MUCH DRIER AIR TO THE WEST HAD FORMED OVER WEST TEXAS AND WAS MOVING EASTWARD WITH THE STORM SYSTEM ALOFT. THIS WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATE TONIGHT INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS WEDNESDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD POSSIBLY BECOME SEVERE OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INCLUDING THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BY LATE TONIGHT. THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF AUSTIN IS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE EXPECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS UNTIL THE PACIFIC FRONT OR DRY LINE PASSES AND BRINGS DRIER AND COOLER AIR TO THE REGION. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS INDICATE THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AS WELL AS POSSIBLE HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. AS WITH ALL THUNDERSTORMS... FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR...AND THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES EXISTS. RESIDENTS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AS WELL AS THOSE AREAS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS...CENTRAL AND NORTH TEXAS... SHOULD BE AWARE OF THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND REMAIN INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND ADVISORIES UNTIL THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT PASSES LATER TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING. && 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Mar 7, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 2:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 55 min |
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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.