Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2000, 3:25 PM CST for Burnet County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2000, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnet 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 16, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 162126 SVRSAT TXC053-162230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 325 PM CST THU MAR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BURNET COUNTY * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 325 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF BURNET...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARBLE FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. .END/
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 16, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 200 PM CST THU MAR 16 2000 SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND HILL COUNTRY PRIMED FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WX OUTBREAK LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. A WEATHER WATCH MAY BE REQUIRED LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. SHOWERS ALREADY DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT OVER LLANO AND GILLESPIE COUNTIES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT THRU THIS EVENING. THE APPROACHING SHORT WAVE COMING OUT OF NEW MEXICO WILL PROVIDE THE STRONG UVV NECESSARY FOR SVR TSTMS. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. PLEASE REFER TO THE SPC MESOSCALE DISCUSSION #0350 FOR MORE DETAIL. SHORT WAVE WILL BE SLOW TO DEPART SO ELEVATED CONVECTION POSSIBLE BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. PCPN WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST ON FRIDAY...BUT CLOUDS WILL BE SLOW TO BREAK. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS ALL OF THE CWFA OVERNIGHT. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONTAL PASSAGE SO CAUTION ON AREA LAKES TONIGHT. TEMPS WERE ALREADY IN THE 30S AT ABILENE...SO UPPER 30S POSSIBLE IN THE HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT...WITH 40S FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LITTLE REBOUND IN TEMPS FRIDAY AS CAA AND CLOUDS KEEP READINGS IN THE 50S...60S RIO GRANDE WHERE CLOUDS WILL BREAK. PRELIMS... AUS 045/055/045/066 75-1 SAT 048/058/048/068 64-1 DRT 045/061/048/072 3201 .EWX...NONE. 13/01 2
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 3:06 PM CST, 19 minutes before
TXZ171>173-186>194-203>209-218>225-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 306 PM CST THU MAR 16 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON AND VALID UNTIL 9 PM. A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE HILL COUNTRY WILL ADVANCE SOUTHWARD TO NEAR A AUSTIN TO SAN ANTONIO LINE BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM. THE COLD FRONT WILL COLLIDE WITH WARM MOIST GULF AIR AND TRIGGER A LINE OF SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STROMS WILL BECOME SEVERE OVER THE WATCH AREA. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. AT 3 PM...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSORMS ALONG THE COLD FRONT WERE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD FROM WESTERN LLANO COUNTY INTO BURNET COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 60 min |
| Mar 16, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Williamson | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 63 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.