Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2000, 7:31 PM CST for Karnes County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports 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 16, 2000, 7:31 PM CST (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Karnes County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:38 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Falls City, TX | |
| Mar 16, 8:05 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Karnes City, 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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 170133
SVRSAT
TXC255-170230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
731 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...
KARNES COUNTY
* UNTIL 830 PM CST
* AT 730 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF FALLS CITY...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
VERY LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY 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.
.END/ LAT...LON 2922 9774 2888 9815 2870 9782 2883 9761
2902 9779 2912 9766The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 60 min |
| 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.