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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 6:47 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 022348 SVRSAT TXC021-030030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 647 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... BASTROP COUNTY * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 647 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH O_F BASTROP...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND... BASTROP ROSANKY * DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREAT. LAT...LON 3007 9762 2986 9728 3011 9708 3033 9737
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 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 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, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 55 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.