Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 9:30 PM CST for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 9:30 PM CST (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fayette County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 10:12 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | La Grange, TX |
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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 268 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 110342
SVRSAT
TTAA00 KEWX 110325
TXC149-110430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
930 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...
FAYETTE COUNTY
* UNTIL 1030 PM CST
* AT 930 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BASTROP TO
GIDDINGS TO SOMERVILLE LAKE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.
* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
ROUND TOP
LA GRANGE
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 3021 9705 3034 9689 2997 9664 2983 9695The 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, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 54 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.