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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 23, 2000Bastrop County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 9:09 PM CDT for Bastrop 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
Jul 23, 2000, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bastrop County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 260 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 925 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
925 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 240210
SVRSAT
TXC021-240315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
909 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...
  BASTROP COUNTY

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 908 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CAMP SWIFT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF
  BASTROP...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER CAMP SWIFT AT 915 PM CDT
  OVER BASTROP AT 935 PM CDT
  4 MILES WEST OF ROSANKY AT 1010 PM CDT

* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
  CAMP SWIFT
  CIRCLE D-KC ESTATES
  BASTROP
  ROSANKY

VERY LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS ABOVE 60 MPH ARE 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.


LAT...LON 2996 9750 2986 9728 3022 9710 3033 9733

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.