Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2000, 6:00 PM CST for Caldwell County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Caldwell County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 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
- 630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 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 170001 SVRSAT TXC055-170100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 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... CALDWELL COUNTY * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 600 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOCKHART...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAN MARCOS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOCKHART AROUND 615 PM CST THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL OVER COMAL AND HAYS COUNTIES. 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 MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. .END/ LAT...LON 2990 9779 2978 9758 2981 9744 3004 9766
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 45 min |
| Mar 16, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 65 min |
| Mar 16, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 54 min |
| Mar 16, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Wilson | 56 min |
| Mar 16, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 7:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 57 min |
| Mar 16, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 9:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 54 min |
| Mar 16, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe, Wilson | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 54 min |
| Mar 16, 11:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell | 60 min |
| Mar 17, 6:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 64 min |
| Mar 17, 6:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Guadalupe | 55 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.