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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

September 24, 2000Kinney County, Maverick County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 2000, 4:46 PM CDT for Kinney County, Maverick County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 24, 2000, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired
Sep 24, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 24, 5:15 PM CDTThunderstorm WindBrackettville, TXSevere thunderstorm winds knock down several trees in the Brackettville area.

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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3413 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 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
3413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.4
Supercell composite
11.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 242147
SVRSAT
TXC271-323-242230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
446 PM CDT SUN SEP 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  MAVERICK COUNTY
  KINNEY COUNTY

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 446 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF BRACKETTVILLE...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES EAST OF DEL RIO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH WERE REPORTED AT THE EEL RIO AIRPORT AT 445 
PM CDT.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM HIGH AREAS...METAL OBJECTS...AND TALL ISOLATED TREES. MOVE
INDOORS IF POSSIBLE BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING THE TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.


LAT...LON 2956 10067 2897 10062 2878 10017 2960 10020

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 24, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXUvalde, Zavala66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.