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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 2000, 9:06 PM CST for Fayette County, Lavaca County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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, 9:06 PM CST (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Fayette County, TX, Lavaca County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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.
000
WUUS54 KEWX 060313 COR
SVRSAT
TXC149-285-060400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
906 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000
...CORRECT THUNDERSTORM SPEED...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
LAVACA COUNTY
FAYETTE COUNTY
* UNTIL 1000 PM CST
* AT 906 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LA GRANGE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF LA
GRANGE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
LAT...LON 2966 9713 2939 9721 2913 9693 2936 9663
2963 9692 2998 9663 3012 9669 3013 9681
3001 9705 2979 9729The 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, 8:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Gonzales | 81 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, 11:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca, Lee | 3 hr |
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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.