Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2000, 9:01 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2000, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 290202 SVRSAT TXC171-290300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 901 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... GILLESPIE COUNTY * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 901 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF HARPER...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JUNCTION...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER HARPER AT 930 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.
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 Oct 28, 2:10 PM CDT, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 2:10 PM CDT, 6 hours 51 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 210 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 FIRST OF TWO LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG NEGATIVELY TILTED UPPER LOW HAS EDGED INTO EASTERN VAL VERDE/WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTIES. UPPER AIR SYSTEM PROGGED TO PIVOT UP AND AROUND WEST AND NORTH TEXAS WITH MORE ACTIVITY THESE AREAS. SOME SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE HILL COUNTRY AND DRT AREAS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SCENARIO OUTLINED IN MORNING FORECAST STILL LOOKS GOOD WITH THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY HILL COUNTRY/AUSTIN AREAS TONIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY. NO REAL SURFACE FOCUS BUT WILL MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. MINOR DISTURBANCES WILL KEEP A SMALL CHANCE OF SHOWERS GOING SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. A SIMILAR UPPER AIR SYSTEM...THIS TIME WITH A COOL FRONT WILL BOOST RAIN CHANCES AGAIN TUESDAY AND THROUGH THE WEEK AS OVERRUNNING COMES INTO PLAY. TEMPS A BLEND OF GUIDANCE. .PRE LIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 065/079 064/082 552 DRT 068/081 066/082 43- SAT 069/080 067/082 332 .EWX...NONE. 3/1/23
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 57 min |
| Oct 28, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 48 min |
| Oct 28, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.