Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 6:35 PM CDT for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lee County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Giddings, TX | Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several businesses in Giddings. |
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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 022337 SVRSAT TXC287-030030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 635 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... LEE COUNTY * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DIME BOX...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF GIDDINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF LEXINGTON...LINCOLN AND GIDDINGS CAN EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY DAMAGING WINDS AND BRIEF MODERATE TO LO0CALLY HEAVY RAINFALL UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS. LAT...LON 3053 9697 3037 9727 3014 9693 3031 9670
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 Sep 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 200 PM CDT SAT SEP 02 2000 A FEW OF THE CUMULI WHICH ARE FORMING OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA COULD DEVELOP INTO ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE ADDITIONAL AFTERNOON HEATING. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP SHOULD DISSIPATE AROUND SUNSET. THE ETA AND AVN SHOW CONTINUED VERY HOT MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS OVER THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH MONDAY AT LEAST. SO WILL FORECAST GENERAL PERSISTENCE IN THE 1-2 DAY FORECAST. WINDS SHOULD NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO CONTINUE THE RED FLAG WARNING. IN THE 3-5 DAY FORECAST...THE MAJOR TROF OVER THE NORTHWEST U.S. WORKS INLAND THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK AND A MAJOR SHIFT IN THE GENERAL UPPER AIR PATTERN NOW SEEMS TO BE COMING INTO PLAY. AN UPPER-LEVEL JET DEVELOPS INTO THE SOUTHWEST U.S. IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE STRONG TROF OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS A BETTER LIFTING PATTERN DEVELOPS...PARTICULARLY BY THE FRI AND SAT PERIOD. THE ENSEMBLE PRECIP CHARTS ALSO SHOW INCREASED RAIN CHANCES AS THE END OF THE WEEK APPROACHES. PREVIOUS FORECAST POINTED IN THIS WETTER DIRECTION AND WILL KEEP THAT TREND IN THE WORDING FOR SAT AS WELL. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 73/105/72/105 1111 SAT 75/102/75/102 1111 DRT 77/104/77/104 0000 .EWX...NONE. 16/02/DC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 43 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.