Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2000, 12:45 AM CST for Bastrop County, Caldwell County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2000, 12:45 AM CST (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2000, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:48 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 17, 1:00 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Elgin, TX | |
| Mar 17, 1:00 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Luling, 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 249 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 170646 SVRSAT TXC021-055-170745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1245 AM CST FRI MAR 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... BASTROP COUNTY CALDWELL COUNTY * UNTIL 145 AM CST * AT 1245 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LOCKHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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. .END/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 6:00 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, 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, 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.