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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 2000, 8:24 PM CST for Caldwell County, Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 81 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 5, 2000, 8:24 PM CST (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 81 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), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS54 KEWX 060224
SVRSAT
TXC055-177-060345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
824 PM CST SUN NOV 5 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 945 PM CST
* AT 824 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOCKHART...MOVING EAST AT
65 MPH.
LAT...LON 2964 9757 2936 9780 2916 9761 2941 9729
2965 9721 3004 9766 2987 9783What 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 5, 6:33 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 6:33 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
633 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000
RAIN WITH SHRA AND TSRA CONTG ACROSS AREA TONIGHT...WITH SVR WX
AND FLASH FLOODING RISK IN PLACE. DRIER WX STILL EXPECTED
MONDAY...FOLLOWED BY PTCLDY SKIES TUE...THEN INCREASING
CLOUDS LATE TURNING CLDY TUE NIGHT. GOOD CHC OF RAIN
FM SHRA AND TSRA EXPECTED WED. RAIN MAY LINGER INTO
WED NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. CLEARING POSSIBLE LATE
THURSDAY OR THURSDAY NIGHT. PTCLDY SKIES FRIDAY.
STILL LOOKS LIKE PSBL RAIN NEXT WEEKEND...VETERANS
DAY WEEKEND. COLDER WEATHER POSSIBLE THE WEEK AFTER
VETERANS DAY WEEKEND...IN THE MID TO LATE PART OF THAT
WEEK.
.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AUS 059/076/050/075 91--
SAT 061/076/052/075 91--
DRT 056/078/055/076 5---
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND HILL COUNTRY
TONIGHT.
TORNADO WATCH FOR LARGE PART OF S CNTRL TX TIL 010 PM CST.
08/03In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 6:24 PM CST, 2 hours before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-060230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 624 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND A LARGE PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TIL 10 PM... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND MOSTLY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT... STORMY WEATHER TONIGHT WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE. FOR MONDAY... THUNDERSTORMS ENDING EARLY AND BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY TO PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE DAY. FOR TUESDAY...ELECTION DAY 2000...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ARE EXPECTED FOLLOWED BY INCREASING CLOUDS LATE IN THE DAY TURNING MOSTLY CLOUDY TUESDAY NIGHT. ON WEDNESDAY ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST. AS A RESULT MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES ARE EXPECTED FOR WEDNESDAY WITH A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. RAINS WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER INTO WlEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH RAIN ENDING IS POSSIBLY BY THURSDAY NIGHT. BY FRIDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ARE EXPECTED...TURNING MOSTLY CLOUDY FRIDAY NIGHT...FOLLOWED BY A CHANCE OF RAIN SATURDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 6:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Frio | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 7:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays, Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 39 min |
| Nov 5, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 55 min |
| Nov 5, 8:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 57 min |
| Nov 5, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Lavaca | 54 min |
| Nov 5, 11:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca, Lee | 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.