Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2000, 6:20 AM CST for Bexar County, Guadalupe County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 17, 2000, 6:20 AM CST (12:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2000, 7:15 AM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bexar County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:20 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 nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 171221 SVRSAT TXC029-187-171315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 620 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... BEXAR COUNTY GUADALUPE COUNTY * UNTIL 715 AM CST * AT 620 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF CHINA GROVE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ST. HEDWIG AROUND 645 AM CST NEW BERLIN AROUND 700 AM CST .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, 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 |
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.