Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 8:41 PM CDT for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2000, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Burnet County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Burnet, 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 240142 SVRSAT TXC053-240245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 841 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BURNET COUNTY * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 841 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BURNET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BERTRAM AT 925 PM CDT * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... BURNET BERTRAM 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. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS LOW WATER CROSSINGS... DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. LAT...LON 3063 9835 3049 9815 3077 9799 3091 9811
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 Jul 23, 8:24 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 8:24 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 830 CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 BOUNDARY MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE CWA BRINGING A BRIEF COOLER NORTHERLY BREEZE AND A LITTLE SHOT OF RAIN TO WET THE DRYNESS IN THE AIR. NORTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH THE BOUNDARY THROUGH THE CWA INTO AND THROUGH THE COASTAL PLAINS. MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WILL SEE THIS BOUNDARY REGION SLOWLY DISSIPATE AS STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS PUSH IT BACK NORTH THROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS. AND SO...MOSTLY TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES EAST AND PARTLY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY SUNNY WEST. BREEZY CONDITIONS ON TAP TUESDAY AS WINDS RESPOND TO THE PASSING OF THE NEXT FRONTAL SYSTEM ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS STATES. AS THIS AFD IS BEING WRITTEN...ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE HILL COUNTRY...MOVING SOUTHWARD. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-232030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 245 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 ...SCATTERED SUMMER AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTY TO PARTS OF BURNET...BLANCO...WILLIAMSON... HAYS AND TRAVIS COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE AUSTIN METRO AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON...AND WILL SHORTLY MOVE INTO PARTS OF KENDALL...HAYS AND BASTROP COUNTIES BEFORE 3 PM... INCLUDING SAN MARCOS AND BASTROP. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THE NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...SAN ANTONIO AND HONDO AREAS IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. AS THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PASSED BY MARBLE FALLS...NORTH WINDS GUSTED TO NEAR 40 MPH...NEAR A TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL AND THE TEMPERATURE FELL TO 79 DEGREES IN RAIN. IN THE AUSTIN AREA...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PASSED OVER CAMP MABRY...WHERE TEMPERATURES FELL TO NEAR 80 DEGREES...WITH THE VISIBILITY AT 2 AND ONE HALF MILES IN RAIN...AND WINDS GUSTING TO 24 MPH FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE RAIN WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT AUSTIN FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. FURTHER WEST...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EDWARDS...REAL...KINNEY...UVALDE...BANDERA AND MEDINA COUNTIES MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THE NEXT FEW HOURS IN THE AFTERNOON AS THEY MOVE SOUTH. STRONG GUSTY WIND AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED IN THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 3:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-232245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 344 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 ...SCATTERED SUMMER AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM EDWARDS COUNTY AND EAST TO PARTS OF REAL...KERR...BANDERA...LLANO... GILLESPIE...BURNET...BLANCO...KENDALL...WILLIAMSON...LEE... BASTROP...CALDWELL...FAYETTE...HAYS AND TRAVIS COUNTIES... INCLUDING THE AUSTIN METRO AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON...AS THEY MOVE SOUTH INTO PARTS OF COMAL...BEXAR... GUADALUPE...GONZALES...WILSON...MEDINA...UVALDE...KINNEY AND VAL VERDE COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY AFFECT THE NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...SAN ANTONIO AND HONDO AREAS IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. AS THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PASSED BY MARBLE FALLS...NORTH WINDS GUSTED TO NEAR 40 MPH...NEAR A TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL AND THE TEMPERATURE FELL TO 79 DEGREES IN RAIN. IN THE AUSTIN AREA...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PASSED OVER CAMP MABRY...WHERE TEMPERATURES FELL TO NEAR 72 DEGREES...WITH THE VISIBILITY NEAR 1 MILE IN RAIN...AND WINDS GUSTING TO 36 MPH. AS OF 321 PM... 0.69 INCHES OF RAIN AT AUSTIN/MABRY AND 1ST MEASURABLE RAIN SINCE JUNE 18TH. AT AUSTIN/BERGSTROM WIND GUSTED TO 39 MPH FROM THE NORTH NORTHEAST WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS...AND THE TEMPERATURE DROPPED TO NEAR 83. AS OF 319 PM...0.06 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT AUSTIN/BERGSTROM...THE 1ST MEASURABLE RAIN SINCE JUNE 18TH. OTHER WIND REPORTS ON THE EAST SIDE OF AUSTIN SHOWED GUSTS NEAR 41 MPH FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. THE RAIN WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT AUSTIN FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. STRONG GUSTY WIND AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED IN THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WIND GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN. WIT2H THE ABSENCE OF RAIN THE PAST FEW WEEKS...ROADS THAT GET WET WILL BE SLIPPERY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.