Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2000, 6:03 AM CST for Hays County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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 29, 2000, 6:03 AM CST (12:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 6:30 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hays County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 29, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 1017 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KEWX 291204
SVRSAT
TXC209-291230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
603 AM CST WED MAR 29 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS...
HAYS COUNTY
* UNTIL 630 AM CST
* AT 603 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOODCREEK...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WIMBERLEY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THIS WARNING INCLUDES LOCATIONS IN AND AROUND...
WOODCREEK
WIMBERLEY
DRIFTWOOD
.END/ LAT...LON 3007 9824 2994 9809 3003 9780 3030 9815The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Blanco | 59 min |
| Mar 28, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Hays | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 64 min |
| Mar 28, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hall | 24 min |
| Mar 28, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 56 min |
| Mar 29, 3:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 60 min |
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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.