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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 7, 2000Kinney County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 10:55 PM CST for Kinney County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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: Mar 7, 2000, 10:55 PM CST (04:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kinney County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 7, 11:45 PM CST	Hail 1	Spofford, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 7, 10:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 36 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

885 
WUUS54 KEWX 080455
SVRSAT
TXC271-080600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1055 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...
  KINNEY COUNTY

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST

* AT 1055 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF SPOFFORD...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.

.END/ LAT...LON 2913 10073 2908 10067 2914 10017 2963 10017
          2960 10040

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, 10:29 PM CST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 10:29 PM CST, 26 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1029 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

SEVERE STORMS IN THE DEL RIO AREA AND LINE IS FILLING IN.  SO...HAVE
UPDATED TO IN`CLUDE POSSIBLE SEVERE MENTION ACROSS THE CWA.  04/18.

.EWX...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 7, 5:00 PM CST, 5 hours 55 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.

Local storm report, Mar 7, 10:45 PM CST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1045 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

949 PM    DEL RIO                   TX   .75 INCH HAIL
03/07/00   VAL VERDE

1005 PM    DEL RIO                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
03/07/00   VAL VERDE

1043 PM    10 NW ROCKSPRINGS         TX   1.25 INCH HAIL
03/07/00   EDWARDS

JPB

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, 9:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney	66 min
Mar 8, 2:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.