Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2000, 5:28 PM CST for Comal County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 16, 2000, 5:28 PM CST (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Comal County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 487 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -391 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 162329 SVRSAT TXC091-170030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 528 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... COMAL COUNTY * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 528 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRING BRANCH...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANYON LAKE DAM...MOVING EAST AT 20 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. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MO=VE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. .END/ LAT...LON 2981 9849 2968 9834 2982 9811 2996 9830
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 65 min |
| 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, 5:42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.