Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 9:21 PM CST for Bastrop 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
- Mar 10, 2000, 9:21 PM CST (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bastrop 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 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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 110320 SVRSAT TXC021-110415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 921 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... BASTROP COUNTY * UNTIL 1015 PM CST * AT 919 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF WYLDWOOD...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF BASTROP...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. .END/ LAT...LON 3010 9759 2983 9731 3010 9710 3037 9731
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 10, 2:00 PM CST, 7 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 2:00 PM CST, 7 hours 21 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 200 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 CLEARING HAS STARTED OVER WESTERN CWA. SOME SHOWERS DEVELOPING IN THE CLEAR AIR...BUT DRIER AIR LIMITING THESE. A FEW SHOWERS OVER THE SE COURTESY THE SEA BREEZE. MODELS INDICATE CHANCE POPS FOR SAT ANTONIO AREA THIS EVENING AND AUSTIN AND EAST TONIGHT AS UPPER TROUGH SWINGS ACROSS. WINDY BEHIND FRONT TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING WILL WARRANT CAUTION OR AREA LAKES. WENT BELOW GUIDANCE FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT WITH GOOD COLD ADVECTION AT HAND. MRF SUGGESTS SHOWERY WEATHER FOR MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS AUS 48/66/37/70 4100 SAT 49/68/39/71 2000 DRT 46/71/42/73 0000 .EWX...NONE. 03/01/CA
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 10, 4:59 PM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
459 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM 7 W LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
0503 PM 4 W LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
0525 PM 4 W LLANO TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
JPBLocal storm report, Mar 10, 5:05 PM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
505 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM 7 W LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
JPBLocal storm report, Mar 10, 5:09 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
509 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION.?...
0455 PM 7 W LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
0503 PM 4 W LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
JPBLocal storm report, Mar 10, 5:31 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
459 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0455 PM 7 W LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
0503 PM 4 W LLANO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
0525 PM 4 W LLANO ; TX 2.00 INCH HAIL
03/10/00 LLANO
JPBThe 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, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 56 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.