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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 2000, 2:34 PM CST for Blanco County, Kendall County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- Nov 2, 2000, 2:34 PM CST (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2000, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Blanco County, TX, Kendall County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 022035 SVRSAT TXC031-259-022130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 234 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... KENDALL COUNTY BLANCO COUNTY * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 234 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF BLANCO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF COMFORT...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. LAT...LON 3004 9876 2996 9866 3017 9829 3021 9845
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 58 min |
| Nov 2, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Travis | 62 min |
| Nov 2, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 63 min |
| Nov 2, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 53 min |
| Nov 2, 3:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 59 min |
| Nov 2, 4:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 27 min |
| Nov 2, 4:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Nov 2, 5:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 3 hr |
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.