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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

March 10, 2000Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 8:34 PM CST for Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2000, 8:34 PM CST (02:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lee County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 10, 9:00 PM CST	Hail 1.5	Giddings, TX	Large, very dense hail, propelled by winds estimated at 30 to 40 mph caused widespread damage to vehicles from northeast of Giddings to near Dime Box.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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 10, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 10, 6:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 274 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KEWX 110235
SVRSAT
TXC287-110330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
834 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
  LEE COUNTY

* UNTIL 930 PM CST

* AT 834 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR             
  INDICATED A PAIR OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE 6 MILES SOUTHWEST   
  OF LEXINGTON AND ANOTHER 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING   
  EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  THESE TWO STORMS WILL LIKELY        
  INTERSECT OVER THE CITIES OF LEXINGTON AND LINCOLN BY 845 PM.

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT AND THESE STORMS COULD 
EASILY PRODUCE A TORNADO IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. IF YOU ARE IN 
THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

.END/ LAT...LON 3054 9698 3038 9722 3014 9695 3029 9672

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes	61 min
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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.