Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2000, 9:59 PM CDT for Gillespie County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- Oct 28, 2000, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gillespie County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 290300 SVRSAT TXC171-290400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 959 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 1100 PM CDT * AT 959 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF HARPER...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF FREDERICKSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES NORTH OF FREDERICKSBURG AT 1050 PM CDT 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. LAT...LON 3044 9928 3022 9927 3024 9867 3045 9872
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, 9:08 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 9:08 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 908 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 A PAIR OF LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE SKIRTING THE NORTHERN ONE- QUARTER OF OUR CWFA AND WILL THREATEN THE AUSTIN AREA IN THE NEXT 2-3 HOURS. NEW WARNING OUT FOR GILLESPIE COUNTY WITH CELLS BEGINNING TO PROPAGATE FARTHER SOUTHWEST. WILL UPDATE TO MENTION LATEST TORNADO WATCH AND REMOVE THE PREVIOUS ONE THAT EXPIRES AT 9 PM FOR OUT WEST. WILL LEAVE MENTION OF SEVERE OUT WEST AS TRAILING 2ND LINE OF STORMS WILL CLIP PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES. FLOOD THREAT IS STILL LOW WITH THE SPEED OF THESE STORMS...BUT 1 OR 2 FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION WITH THE STRONGER CELLS AND THE CURRENT FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCES AROUND AN INCH IN SPOTS. CURRENT FORECAST STILL APPEARS TO HANDLE THIS SEVERE WEATHER/HEAVY RAIN SCENARIO WELL; ONLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN FORECAST WILL BE TO INCREASE POPS INTO LIKBELY CATEGORY FOR ALL COUNTIES IN WATCH AREA. .EWX...NONE. 18/2
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, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 59 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.