Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 7:44 PM CST for Gonzales County, Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 26, 2000, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Gonzales County, TX, Wilson County, TX
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 26, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1032 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KEWX 270149 SVRSAT TXC177-493-270245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 744 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS... GONZALES COUNTY WILSON COUNTY * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 750 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF NIXON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SEGUIN...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM HIGH AREAS...METAL OBJECTS...AND TALL ISOLATED TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. .END/ LAT...LON 2930 9811 2921 9786 2940 9742 2941 9758
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays | 59 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.