Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 6:14 PM CST for DeWitt County, Gonzales County, Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- Mar 10, 2000, 6:14 PM CST (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties DeWitt County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Karnes County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 2395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 110015 SVRSAT TXC123-177-255-110115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 614 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... GONZALES COUNTY DEWITT COUNTY KARNES COUNTY * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 614 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF YORKTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 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. .END/ LAT...LON 2915 9773 2892 9762 2904 9717 2943 9745
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 65 min |
| Mar 10, 7:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Karnes | 3 hr |
| Mar 10, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 7:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 54 min |
| Mar 10, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 60 min |
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.