Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 2:05 AM CST for Travis County, Williamson County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Mar 8, 2000, 2:05 AM CST (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2000, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 1022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 080806 SVRSAT TXC453-491-080900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 205 AM CST WED MAR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... TRAVIS COUNTY WILLIAMSON COUNTY * UNTIL 300 AM CST * AT 205 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAGO VISTA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF CEDAR PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ANDERSON MILL AROUND 210 AM CST CEDAR PARK AROUND 215 AM CST GEORGETOWN AROUND 230 AM CST WEIR AROUND 235 AM CST LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. .END/ LAT...LON 3044 9810 3031 9795 3061 9736 83085 9777
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 Mar 7, 10:29 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 10:29 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1029 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 SEVERE STORMS IN THE DEL RIO AREA AND LINE IS FILLING IN. SO...HAVE UPDATED TO IN`CLUDE POSSIBLE SEVERE MENTION ACROSS THE CWA. 04/18. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 7, 10:45 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1045 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
949 PM DEL RIO TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/07/00 VAL VERDE
1005 PM DEL RIO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/07/00 VAL VERDE
1043 PM 10 NW ROCKSPRINGS TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
03/07/00 EDWARDS
JPBLocal storm report, Mar 8, 12:05 AM CST, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1205 AM CST WED MAR 8 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1145 PM SPOFFORD TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/07/00 KINNEY
JPBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Mar 7, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.