Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 2000, 2:47 PM CST for Caldwell County, Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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, 2:47 PM CST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Caldwell County, TX, Gonzales County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 1583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 022048 SVRSAT TXC055-177-022145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 247 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... GONZALES COUNTY CALDWELL COUNTY * UNTIL 345 PM CST * AT 247 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PALMETO...OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF GONZALES...MOVING NORTH 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 kTHUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 2951 9768 2939 9753 2980 9746 2987 9763
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 Nov 2, 2:45 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 2, 2:45 PM CST, 2 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
245 PM CST THU NOV 2 2000
NUMBER OF FACTORS COMING INTO PLAY THIS AFTERNOON THAT HAS RESULTED
IN THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT INTO FRI. WK NE-SW ORIENTED
FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY
WITH VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AMS(LAPS LI'S -6 TO -8) SOUTH OF THE FNT.
PW'S FORECAST TO CONT WELL ABOVE NORMAL IN THE 1.5 TO NR 2 INCHES
FOR THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HRS WITH AN INVERTED TROF/CDFNT FORMING FRI
AFTN/EVENING. SWLY FLOW ALOFT NEARLY PARALLEL TO THE SFC BOUNDARY
LIKELY TO RESULT IN TRAINING ECHOES ALONG THE BOUNDARY. IN ADDITION
THREAT OF SVR AS STG SUBTRPL JET PUNCHES NEWD FM MEX INTO W CNTRL TX
OVERNIGHT...WITH MUCH OF CWA IN RRQ OF JET MAX THRU THE EVENING AS
PER ETA. APPEARS THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN TO CONT THRU FRI NIGHT AS SFC
BOUNDARY GETS PUSHED BACK THRU THE CWA BEHIND BUILDING SFC RDG AND
PERHAPS A TEMPORARY DECREASE IN POPS FROM THE WEST SATURDAY...BEFORE
OVERRUNNING RESUMES SUN/MON. ANOTHER WET CDFNT TUE AS ANOTHER LOW
LAT LOW KICKS OUT NEWD FROM NRN MEX INTO TX WED/THU.
WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES EXPECTED ACROSS WATCH
AREA NEXT 12-24 HOURS WITH ISOLD 4 TO 6 INCHES. FFA WILL BE ISSUED
FOR ALL BUT THREE SWRN COUNTIES WHERE FLASH FLOOD GUID NUMBERS
REMAIN RELATIVELY HIGH.
PRELIMS...
AUS 68/78 63/68 8887
SAT 71/79 65/72 8887
DR/T 65/74 59/69 8876
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH S CNTRL TX AND HILL COUNTRY THRU FRI
MORNING.
RIVER FLOOD WATCH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TX THRU FRI EVENING.
SEVERE TSTM WATCH UNTIL 6 PM CST.
01/13The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 56 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.